The Gift Of Love

the lyrics to a hymn i've been hunting for for a while.

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The Gift Of Love:

Though I may speak with bravest fire,
And have the gift to all inspire,
And have not love, my words are vain,
As sounding brass, and hopeless gain.

Though I may give all I possess,
And striving so my love profess,
But not be given by love within,
The profit soon turns strangely thin.

Come, Spirit, come, our hearts control,
Our spirits long to be made whole.
Let inward love guide every deed;
By this we worship, and are freed.

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is this the right time to start a rant on alternate tunes to hymns? muahahahahaha....

sometimes people get so caught up with switching tunes and lyrics around that we lose the original feel and applications of the words or tune. when it comes to the point that i cant even remember what the original sounds like, it makes me stop and think... have we lost out composer's original intent?