O Love how deep

(short introduction)

O love, how deep, how broad, how high,
It fills the heart with ecstasy,
That God, the Child of God, should take
Our mortal form for mortals' sake!

God sent no angel to our race
Of higher or of lower place,
But wore the robe of human frame
And into this lost world God came.

For us baptized, for us Christ bore
This holy fast and hungered sore,
For us temptation sharp Christ knew;
For us the tempter overthrew.

For us Christ prayed; for us Christ taught;
For us Christ daily works wrought;
By words and signs and actions thus
Still seeking nothing else but us.

For us to evil power betrayed,
Scourged, mocked, in purple robe arrayed,
Christ bore the shameful cross and death,
For us cried out in dying breath.

For us Christ rose from death again;
For us Christ went on high to reign;
For us Christ sent God's Spirit here,
To guide, to strengthen, and to cheer.

All glory to our Holy God
For love so deep, so high, so broad:
with Trinity Whom we adore,
Forever and forevermore.

Words: Anon. (15thC); trans. Benjamin Webb, 1854
Music: Deo Gracias, English melody