Christ My Song - 898
Hath not each heart a passion and a dream? - With him, all things (Gerhard Tersteegen/Frances Bevan/Johannes Thomas Rüegg)
With him, all things.
Isaiah 12,2.
Hath not each heart a passion and a dream?
Each some companionship for ever sweet?
And each in saddest skies some silver gleam,
and each some passing joy, too fair and fleet?
And each a staff and stay, though frail it prove,
and each a face he fain would ever see?
And what have I? An endless Heaven of love,
a rapture, and a glory, and a calm;
a life that is an everlasting Psalm,
all, O Beloved, in thee.
Frances Bevan, Hymns of Ter Steegen, Suso and others 1, 1899, 18. After Gerhard Tersteegen.