| Alfred H. Miles, ed. The Sacred Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | | I. “O Love that wilt not let me go” | | By George Matheson (1842–1906) |
| | | O LOVE that wilt not let me go, | |
| I rest my weary soul on Thee; | |
| I give Thee back the life I owe, | |
| That in Thine ocean depths its flow | |
| May richer, fuller be. | 5 |
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| O Light that followest all my way, | |
| I yield my flickering torch to Thee, | |
| My heart restores its borrowed ray, | |
| That in Thy sunshine’s blaze its day | |
| May brighter, fairer be. | 10 |
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| O Joy that seekest me through pain, | |
| I cannot close my heart to Thee; | |
| I trace the rainbow through the rain, | |
| And feel the promise is not vain | |
| That morn shall tearless be. | 15 |
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| O Cross that liftest up my head, | |
| I dare not ask to fly from Thee; | |
| I lay in dust life’s glory dead, | |
| And from the ground there blossoms red | |
| Life that shall endless be. | 20 | | | |
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