O perfect Love (Harry T. Burleigh)
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Title: O Perfect Love (Wedding Song)
Composer: Harry T. Burleigh
Lyricist: Dorothy Frances Blomfield (1858-1932)
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: Solo Soprano
Genre: Secular, Aria
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
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English text
- O perfect Love, all human thought 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.
- O perfect Life, be thou 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.
- Grant them the joy which brightens earthly sorrow;
- grant them the peace which calms all earthly strife,
- and to life’s day the glorious unknown morrow
- that dawns upon eternal love and life.