He Understood

From its swaddling clothes of night God stepped out and bid there be light And the high waters too obeyed And heaven and arrayed was in love arrayed Chorus He understood from the beginnning What I should need until the end Love made me in his image, the living Focus of what faith so frail comprehend Creation and cross was only for me Only for me, the gift of all majesty Down from love immortal realms My friend's calling ring anthems Sweet, from the tree where we sup To the garden of the cup To thee O God, again I Come, No longer to deny My sin and grief surrendered For sweet the grace you tendered.