What Grace, O Lord!

Verse 1

What grace, O Lord, and beauty shone around Your steps below! What patient love was seen in all Your life and death of woe!

Verse 2

For ever on Your burdened heart a weight of sorrow hung, yet no ungentle, murmuring word escaped Your silent tongue.

Verse 3

Your foes might hate, despise, revile, Your friends unfaithful prove; unwearied in forgiveness still, Your heart could only love.

Verse 4

O give us hearts to love like You, like You, O Lord, to grieve far more for others’ sins than all the wrongs that we receive.

Verse 5

One with Yourself, may every eye in all of humankind behold that grace and gentleness which, Lord, in You we find.