Jesus, United by Thy Grace
Jesus, united by thy grace,
And each to each endeared,
Jesus, united by thy grace,
And each to each endeared,
With confidence we seek thy face,
And know our prayer is heard.
Still let us own our common Lord,
And bear thine easy yoke,
A band of love, a threefold cord,
Which never can be broke.
Make us into one spirit drink;
Baptize into thy name;
And let us always kindly think,
And sweetly speak, the same.
Touched by the loadstone of thy love,
Let all our hearts agree,
And ever towards each other move,
And ever move towards thee.
To thee, inseparably joined,
Let all our spirits cleave;
O may we all the loving mind
That was in thee receive!
This is the bond of perfectness,
Thy spotless charity;
O let us (still we pray) possess
The mind that was in thee!
Grant this, and then from all below
Insensibly remove:
Our souls their change shall scarcely know,
Made perfect first in love!
With ease our souls through death shall glide
Into their paradise,
And thence, on wings of angels, ride
Triumphant through the skies.
Yet, when the fullest joy is given,
The same delight we prove,
In earth, in paradise, in heaven,
Our all in all is love.