Immortal Love, Within Whose Righteous Will
- Words:
- Stopford A. Brooke
- Music:
- Albert L. Peace
Sheet music
- 1Immortal Love, within Whose righteous willIs always peace,O pity me, storm-tossed on waves of ill;Let passion cease;Come down in pow’r within my heart to reign,For I am weak, and struggle has been vain.
- 2The days are gone when far and wide my willDrove me astray;And now I fain would climb the arduous hill,That narrow wayWhich leads through mist and rocks to Thine abode; Toiling for man, and Thee, almighty God.
- 3Whate’er of pain Thy loving hand allot,I gladly bear;Only, O Lord, let peace be not forgot,Nor yet Thy care,Freedom from storms and wild desires within,Peace from the fierce oppression of my sin.
- 4So may I, far away, when evening fallsOn life and love,Arrive at last the holy, happy halls,With Thee above,Wounded, yet healed, sin laden, yet forgiv’n,And sure Thy goodness is my only heav’n.Amen.
In the hymnals
- Written in 1881, the words are in 23 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The sheet music and words are from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.