O blessed Savior, Jesus, Lord!
What hast Thou done for me!
Were the broad sky one outspread page,
My pen the smallest tree—
Were rivers, oceans, lakes and seas
Ink gathered into one—
And I to write, and write, and write
Until this world were done—
Lord Jesus! well I know, full well,
That I could not the one half tell.
If to my tongue were given a power
Omnipotent, to speak,
So that each word thus spoken would
More than a thousand make:
If all the weeks, and months, and years
Were days rolled into one,
And I could talk, and talk, and talk,
Until all time were run
Lord Jesus, oh I know full well
That I could not the one half tell!
Were my heart larger than the world,
No earthly thing within—
Were it completely emptied out,
Entirely free from sin—
A mighty heart, and time to fill,
Until expired the sun—
Ah, me! It would be bursting full,
While time were but begun!
Lord Jesus! all Thy love untold
It never could the one half hold!
Lord Jesus, O Thou blessed One!
All Thou hast done for me!
A thousand tongues can never tell
The fullness that's in Thee!
A thousand hearts can never hold
What Thou to me hast given;
A thousand worlds cannot contain
The glory there in heaven.
Lord Jesus! Well I know, full well,
That nothing human e'er can tell!