Hymn 133

 Love and charity.


1 Cor.
 13:2-7, 13.
 

Let Pharisees of high esteem
Their faith and zeal declare,
All their religion is a dream,
If love be wanting there.


Love suffers long with patient eye,
Nor is provoked in haste;
She lets the present injury die,
And long forgets the past.


[Malice and rage, those fires of hell,
She quenches with her tongue;
Hopes and believes, and thinks no ill,
Though she endure the wrong.
]

[She nor desires nor seeks to know
The scandals of the time;
Nor looks with pride on those below,
Nor envies those that climb.
]

She lays her own advantage by
To seek her neighbor's good;
So God's own Son came down to die,
And bought our lives with blood.


Love is the grace that keeps her power
In all the realms above;
There faith and hope are known no more,
But saints for ever love.

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