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Loved with everlasting love,
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| 1. | Loved with everlasting love, |
| | Led by grace that love to know; |
| | Spirit, breathing from above, |
| | Thou hast taught me it is so. |
| | Oh, this full and perfect peace! |
| | Oh, this transport all divine! |
| | In a love which cannot cease, |
| | I am His, and He is mine. |
| 2. | Heaven above is softer blue, |
| | Earth around is sweeter green; |
| | Something lives in every hue |
| | Christless eyes have never seen: |
| | Birds with gladder songs o'erflow, |
| | Flow'rs with deeper beauties shine, |
| | Since I know, as now I know, |
| | I am His, and He is mine. |
| 3. | Things that once were wild alarms |
| | Cannot now disturb my rest; |
| | Closed in everlasting arms, |
| | Pillowed on the loving breast. |
| | Oh, to lie forever here, |
| | Doubt and care and self resign, |
| | While He whispers in my ear, |
| | I am His, and He is mine. |
| 4. | His forever, only His: |
| | Who the Lord and me shall part? |
| | Ah, with what a rest of bliss |
| | Christ can fill the loving heart. |
| | Heaven and earth may fade and flee, |
| | Firstborn light in gloom decline; |
| | But, while God and I shall be, |
| | I am His, and He is mine. |