If I despond, 'tis not for long;
If weakness bows me, strength again
Soon lifts me up and makes me strong;
Death strives with me in vain
For Christ's unbounded love to me
Gives hope, strength, immortality.
And Christ's vast love's forever mine;
From it I never can be torn:
Things present, things in coming time,
By it are overborne.
Angels nor principalities
Can sever us in anywise.
O glorious strength of love divine!
Since thou are with me in the way,
All things may like one wave combine
To make my life their prey.
Thou wilt but laugh to see it rise,
And take me to thy paradise.