My Song Is Love Unknown

PD Words: Samuel Crossman, 1664

PD Music: John Ireland, 1919

Arrangement:  Keith Getty

Verse 1

My song is love unknown, my Savior's love to me

Love to the loveless shown that they might lovely be

Oh, who am I that for my sake

My Lord should take frail flesh and die?

Verse 2

He came from His blest throne salvation to bestow

but men made strange, and none the longed-for Christ would know

But oh, my Friend, my Friend indeed

who at my need His life did spend

Verse 3

Sometimes they strew His way, and His strong praises sing

Resounding all the way hosannas to their King

Then "Crucify!" is all their breath

And for His death they thirst and cry

Verse 4

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 at these

Themselves displease, and 'gainst Him rise

Verse 5

They rise, and needs will have my dear Lord made away

A murderer they save, the Prince of Life they slay

Yet steadfast He to suff'ring goes

That He His foes from thence might free

Verse 6

In life no house, no home my Lord on earth might have

In death no friendly tomb but what a stranger gave

What may I say? Heav'n was his home

But mine the tomb wherein he lay

Verse 7

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