Love Is Freedom's Law

Verse 1

O love divine, unfathomed! O shoreless sea of bliss! Thy throne the highest heaven, Yet flowing down to this Dark world of guilt and sorrow, Redeems the fettered soul; Thy paths of peace I follow, O love, our hearts extol!

Chorus

O love! supreme affection! We bow low at thy shrine, Love is our great salvation; O love divine!

Verse 2

Enshrined within the bosom Of Father’s tender love, We seem in deep mid-ocean Of heaven’s bliss above; Oh, wonders of redemption! We gaze in silent awe Upon the new creation, Where love is freedom’s law.

Verse 3

Worlds of ecstatic glory Love opens to our view, Where saints and angels truly Find joys forever new; Sweet element of heaven! He is supremely blest Who, in thy sea o’erwhelmed Has found eternal rest.

Verse 4

Love holds a royal scepter, And Mercy looketh down, Both calling to the sinner, “Come wear a starry crown”; Oh, sweet divine compassion! Poor sinner, taste and see, If grace thy heart may fashion, Then love shall reign in thee.