O Perfect Love

Words:
Dorothy B. Gurney
Music:
John Barn

Sheet music

  1. 1O perfect Love, all human tho't transcending,Lowly we kneel in prayer before Thy throne,That theirs may be the love which knows no ending,Whom Thou forevermore dost join in one.
  2. 2O perfect Life, beThou their full assurance,Of tender charity and steadfast faith,Of patient hope and quiet, brave endurance,With childlike trust that fears nor pain nor death.
  3. 3Grant them the joy which brightens earthly sorrow;Grant them the peace which calms all earthly strife,And to life's day the glorious unknown morrowThat dawns upon eternal love and life.

In the hymnals

  • Written in 1883, the words are in 270 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.

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