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                        "O Love, Who Madest Me to Wear"
                        by Johann Scheffler, 1624-1677
                 Translated by Catherine Winkworth, 1829-1878
                                  Text From:
                              THE LUTHERAN HYMNAL
                 (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1941)



	1. O Love, who madest me to wear
	The image of Thy Godhead here;
	Who soughtest me with tender care
	Thro' all my wand'rings wild and drear,--
	O Love, I give myself to Thee,
	Thine ever, only Thine, to be.

	2. O Love, who ere life's earliest dawn
	On me Thy choice hast gently laid;
	O Love, who here as man wast born
	And like to us in all things made,--
	O Love, I give myself to Thee,
	Thine ever, only Thine, to be.

	3. O Love, who once in time wast slain,
	Pierced thro' and thro' with bitter woe;
	O Love, who, wrestling thus, didst gain
	That we eternal joy might know,--
	O Love, I give myself to Thee,
	Thine ever, only Thine, to be.

	4. O Love, who thus hast bound me fast
	Beneath that easy yoke of Thine;
	Love, who hast conquered me at last,
	Enrapturing this heart of mine,--
	O Love, I give myself to Thee,
	Thine ever, only Thine, to be.

	5. O Love, who lovest me for aye,
	Who for my soul dost ever plead;
	O Love, who didst my ransom pay,
	Whose power sufficeth in my stead,--
	O Love, I give myself to Thee,
	Thine ever, only Thine, to be.

	6. O Love, who once shalt bid me rise
	From out this dying life of ours;
	O Love, who once above yon skies
	Shalt set me in the fadeless bowers,--
	O Love, I give myself to Thee,
	Thine ever, only Thine, to be.

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        Notes:
        Hymn #397 from _The Lutheran Hymnal_
        Text: 1 John 4:16
        Author: Johann Scheffler, 1657
        Translated by: Catherine Winkworth, 1858
        Titled: "Liebe, die du mich zum Bilde"
        Tune: "Heut' triumphieret Gottes Sohn"
        1st Published in: _Deutsche geistliche Lieder_
        Town: Frankfurt a. O., 1601
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