O Thou Who Gavest Power To Love [#OThouWhoGavest #ThouWhoGavest #WhoGavestPower #GavestPower #GavestPowerToLove #PowerToLove #ToLove #OThouWhoGavestPowerToLove]
O Thou Who Gavest Power To Love [#OThouWhoGavest #ThouWhoGavest #WhoGavestPower #GavestPower #GavestPowerToLove #PowerToLove #ToLove #OThouWhoGavestPowerToLove]
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Original in English: July 5, 1843, Carlisle, England, UK – January 14, 1901, Lambeth, London, England, UK
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O Thou who gavest power to love
That we might fix our hearts on Thee
Preparing us for joys above
By that which here on earth we see
2
Thy Spirit trains our souls to know
The growing purpose of Thy will
And gives to love the power to show
That purpose growing larger still
3
Larger as love to reverent eyes
Makes manifest another soul
And shows to life a richer prize
A clearer course a nobler goal
4
Lord grant Thy servants who implore
Thy blessing on the hearts they blend
That from that union evermore
New joys may blossom to the end
5
Make what is best in each combine
To purge all earthly dross away
To strengthen purify refine
To beautify each coming day
6
So may they hand in hand advance
Along life’s path from troubles free
Brave to meet adverse circumstance
Because their love points up to Thee