Our song is love unknown

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(one verse introduction)

Our song is love unknown,
Our Savior's love to us;
Love to the loveless shown,
That they might lovely be.
O who am we, that for our sake
Our God should take, frail flesh and die?

God came from the blest throne
Salvation to bestow;
But we were blind, and none
The longed for Christ would know:
But O! our Friend, our Friend indeed,
Who at our need His life did spend.

Here might we stay and sing,
No story so divine;
Never was love, dear King!
Never was grief like Thine.
This is our Friend, in Whose sweet praise
We all our days could gladly spend.

Music: Love Unknown John Ireland (20thC) (adapted)
Words: Samuel Crossman (17thC)
Sequence: Dall Forsythe, Church of St. John the Evangelist