17Since thou, O fondest and truest,Hast loved me best and longest,And now with trust the strongestThe joy of my heart renewest;Since thou art dearer and dearerWhile other hearts grow colder,And ever, as love is older,More lovingly drawest nearer:Since now I see in the measureOf all my giving and taking,Thou wert my hand in the making,The sense and soul of my pleasure;The good I have ne’er repaid theeIn heaven I pray be recorded,And all thy love rewardedBy God, thy master that made thee.
17Since thou, O fondest and truest,Hast loved me best and longest,And now with trust the strongestThe joy of my heart renewest;Since thou art dearer and dearerWhile other hearts grow colder,And ever, as love is older,More lovingly drawest nearer:Since now I see in the measureOf all my giving and taking,Thou wert my hand in the making,The sense and soul of my pleasure;The good I have ne’er repaid theeIn heaven I pray be recorded,And all thy love rewardedBy God, thy master that made thee.
Since thou, O fondest and truest,Hast loved me best and longest,And now with trust the strongestThe joy of my heart renewest;Since thou art dearer and dearerWhile other hearts grow colder,And ever, as love is older,More lovingly drawest nearer:Since now I see in the measureOf all my giving and taking,Thou wert my hand in the making,The sense and soul of my pleasure;The good I have ne’er repaid theeIn heaven I pray be recorded,And all thy love rewardedBy God, thy master that made thee.
Since thou, O fondest and truest,Hast loved me best and longest,And now with trust the strongestThe joy of my heart renewest;Since thou art dearer and dearerWhile other hearts grow colder,And ever, as love is older,More lovingly drawest nearer:Since now I see in the measureOf all my giving and taking,Thou wert my hand in the making,The sense and soul of my pleasure;The good I have ne’er repaid theeIn heaven I pray be recorded,And all thy love rewardedBy God, thy master that made thee.
Since thou, O fondest and truest,Hast loved me best and longest,And now with trust the strongestThe joy of my heart renewest;
Since thou, O fondest and truest,
Hast loved me best and longest,
And now with trust the strongest
The joy of my heart renewest;
Since thou art dearer and dearerWhile other hearts grow colder,And ever, as love is older,More lovingly drawest nearer:
Since thou art dearer and dearer
While other hearts grow colder,
And ever, as love is older,
More lovingly drawest nearer:
Since now I see in the measureOf all my giving and taking,Thou wert my hand in the making,The sense and soul of my pleasure;
Since now I see in the measure
Of all my giving and taking,
Thou wert my hand in the making,
The sense and soul of my pleasure;
The good I have ne’er repaid theeIn heaven I pray be recorded,And all thy love rewardedBy God, thy master that made thee.
The good I have ne’er repaid thee
In heaven I pray be recorded,
And all thy love rewarded
By God, thy master that made thee.