THE LOVE OF GOD
Frederick M. Lehman - 1917. (Inspired by Jewish poem Haddamut, written in Aramaic in 1050 by Meir Ben Isaac Nehorai)
The love of God is greater far
than tongue or pen could ever tell
it goes beyond the highest star
and reaches to the lowest hell
The guilty pair bowed down with care, God gave his Son to win
His erring child he reconciled, and pardoned from his sin
Oh Love of God, how rich and pure
how measureless and strong
it shall forevermore endure
the saints' and angels' song
Could we with ink the ocean fill
and were the skies of parchment made
were every stalk on earth a quill
and every man a scribe by trade
To write the love of God above
would drain the ocean dry
nor could the scroll contain the whole
though stretched from sky to sky
Oh Love of God, how rich and pure
how measureless and strong
it shall forevermore endure
the saints' and angels' song
