My Song Is Love Unknown
SATB, organ and violin or other C instrument. A captivatingly melodic new setting of five verses of the Samuel Crossman hymn. This anthem is perfect for Lent, Passion Sunday, or anytime during Holy Week. Wonderful!
My song is love unknown,
My Savior’s love to me;
Love to the loveless shown,
That they might lovely be.
O who am I, that for my sake
My Lord should take, frail flesh and die?
He came from His blest throne
Salvation to bestow;
But men made strange, and none
The longed for Christ would know:
But O! my Friend, my Friend indeed,
Who at my need His life did spend.
Sometimes they strew His way,
And His sweet praises sing;
Resounding all the day
Hosannas to their King:
Then “Crucify!” is all their breath,
And for His death they thirst and cry.
They rise and needs will have
My dear Lord made away;
A murderer they saved,
The Prince of life they slay,
Yet cheerful He to suffering goes,
That He His foes from thence might free.
No story so divine;
Never was love, dear King!
This is my Friend, in Whose sweet praise
I all my days could gladly spend.