My Song Is Love Unknown Lyrics

My song is love unknown

My Savior's love to me

Love to the loveless shown

That they might lovely be

Oh, who am I that for my sake

My Lord should take frail flesh and die

He came from his blest throne

Salvation to bestow

The world that was his own

Would not its Savior know

But, oh, my friend

My friend indeed

Who at my need his life did spend

Sometimes we strew his way

And his sweet praises sing

Resounding all the day

Hosannas to their king

Then, "Crucify!" is all their breath

And for his death they thirst and cry

We cry out, we will have

Our dear Lord made away

A murderer to save

The prince of life to slay

Yet cheerful he to suff'ring goes

That he his foes from thence might free

If life no house, no home

My Lord on earth might have

In death no friendly tomb

But what a stranger gave

What may I say? Heav'n was his home

But mine the tomb wherein he lay

Here might I stay and sing

No story so divine

Never was love, dear King

Never was grief like thine

This is my friend, in whose sweet praise

I all my days would gladly spend