My Song Is Love Unknown Lyrics

My song is love unknown

My Saviour'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 die 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.

Why what hath my Lord done?

What makes this rage and spite?

He made the lame to run,

He gave the blind their sight.

Sweet injuries yet they are these

Themselves displease

And against his rise.

They rise and needs will have

My dear Lord made a way;

A murderer they save,

The Prince of Life they slain

Yet cheerful he to suffering goes,

That he his foes from thence might free.

In life no house no home

My Lord on earth might have;

In death no friendly tomb,

But what stranger gave.

What may i say

Heaven was His home;

But mine the tomb

Where in he lay.

Here might i stay and sing,

No story so divine;

Never was love dear King Never was grief like thine!

This is my friend

In whose sweet praise I all my days

Could gladly spend.