Love of God, all love excelling!

How can I its wonders tell!

Now, my troubled spirit quelling,

Now, it breaks the powers of hell:

O what mercies

Start beneath its magic spell!

2 Love of God, all love embracing

In its wide extended arms;

All our doubts and fears displacing,

Saves our souls from death’s alarms:

O what sweetness

Dwells within its blissful charms!

3 Love of God, all love possessing!

Filling all our souls with joy;

Pouring on each heart a blessing,

Which no time can e’er destroy:

Now may praises

All our hearts and tongues employ.

4 Love of God, all love extending

Far o’er sea and ocean strands;

Thou art on the breezes sending

Joyful news to distant lands:

May thy triumphs

Bind the world within thy bands.