Immortal Love, forever full (Francis Duckworth)

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• (Posted 2022-05-31)  CPDL #69470:     

Editor: Douglas Walczak (submitted 2022-05-31).   Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 30 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

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Title: Immortal Love, forever full
Composer: Francis Duckworth
Lyricist: John Greenleaf Whittier
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn

Language: English
Instruments: Organ

First published: 1921
Description: Hymn Tune: Galilee

Original text and translations

English text

1 Immortal Love for ever full,
for ever flowing free,
for ever shared, for ever whole,
a never-ebbing sea.

2 Our outward lips confess the name
all other names above;
love only knoweth whence it came
and comprehendeth love.

3 We may not climb the heavenly steeps
to bring the Lord Christ down;
in vain we search the lowest deeps,
for him no depths can drown:

4 But warm, sweet, tender, even yet
a present help is he;
and faith has still its Olivet,
and love its Galilee.

5 The healing of his seamless dress
is by our beds of pain;
we touch him in life's throng and press,
and we are whole again.

6 Through him the first fond prayers are said
our lips of childhood frame;
the last low whispers of our dead
are burdened with his name.

7 Alone, O Love ineffable,
thy saving name is given;
to turn aside from thee is hell,
to walk with thee is heaven.