 | Cottage verse, Joseph Jones - 1852 - 296 pages
...Desire in vain its depths to see ; They cannot reach the mystery, The length, and breadth, and height. God only knows the love of God : O that it now were shed abroad In this poor stony heart ; For love I sigh, for love I pine : This only portion, Lord,... | |
 | Christians - 1853 - 510 pages
...knows the love of God, 0 that it were more shed abroad In each poor longing heart I For love I'd sigh, for love I'd pine ; This only portion, Lord, be mine, Be mine this better part ! 3 O that I may for ever sit Like Mary, at the Master's feet ! Be this my happy choice ; My only care,... | |
 | Primitive Methodists - 1853 - 634 pages
...Desire in vain its depths to see; They cannot reach the mystery, The length, the breadth, the height. 3 God only knows the love of God; O that it now were shed abroad In this poor longing heart: For love I pray; thine ear incline, And let this portion, Lord,... | |
 | Benjamin Samuel HOLLIS - 1854 - 584 pages
...Angels desire its depth to see ; But cannot reach the mystery, The length, and breadth, and height. 3 God only knows the love of God ; O that it now were shed abroad In this dull stony heart ! For love I sigh, for love I pine : This only portion, Lord,... | |
 | Henry Ward Beecher - 1856 - 934 pages
...in vain its depths to see ; They can not reach the mystery, The length, the breadth, the height. 3. God only knows the love of God ; O that it now were shed abroad In this poor stony heart ! For this I sigh ; for Thee I pine ; This only portion, Lord,... | |
 | Baptist union - 1857 - 608 pages
...Desire in vain its depths to seeIl,ey eannot reaeh the mysterv The length, and hreadth, and height. 3 God only knows the love of God , O that it now were shed ahroad In this poor stony heart ; for love I sigh, for love I pme , This only portion, Lord, he... | |
 | Christian year-book - 1857 - 386 pages
...Then life will be pleasant, and death welcome, for it will bring us to be with Him for ever in heaven. God only knows the love of God; O that it now were shed abroad In this poor stony heart ! For love I sigh, for love I pine ; This only portion, Lord,... | |
 | William Davies (of Knighton.) - 1859 - 132 pages
...ever will be, comprehended. "In Tain the first-born Seraph tries To sound the depths of Love Divine ! God only knows the love of God. O ! that it now were shed abroad, In this poor stony heart." Love brought the Lord of Life from the highest glory to the... | |
 | Reformed Church in the United States. Synod - 1860 - 790 pages
...thirst, and faint, and die to prov» The greatness of redeeming love : The love of Christ in me. 2 God only knows the love of God ; O that it now were shed abroad In this poor stony heart ! For love I sigh, for love I pine ; This only portion, Lord,... | |
 | 1861 - 662 pages
...Desire in vain its depths to see; They cannot reach the mystery, The length, the breadth, the height. God only knows the love of God ; O that it now were shed abroad In this poor stony heart! ANECDOTES AND SELECTIONS. For love I sigh, for love I pine, This... | |
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God only knows the love of God ; O that it now were shed abroad In this poor stony heart ! For love I sigh, for love I pine ; This only portion, LORD, be mine, Be mine this better part. 
