Here is love vast as the ocean (with Bewes verses)

Words: Richard Bewes
Music: DIM OND IESU (Robert Lowry)
Arrangement: Roger Mayor
Metre: 8 7 8 7 D
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1 Here is love vast as the ocean,
loving kindness as the flood,
when the Prince of life, our ransom,
shed for us his precious blood.
Who his love will not remember?
Who can cease to sing his praise?
He can never be forgotten
throughout heaven's eternal days.

2 On the mount of crucifixion
fountains opened deep and wide;
through the floodgates of God's mercy
flowed a vast and gracious tide.
Grace and love, like mighty rivers,
poured incessant from above;
and heaven's peace and perfect justice
kissed a guilty world in love.

3 Through the years of human darkness,
shone the lamp the prophets trimmed,
making known redemption's story,
of the love of God undimmed.
Christ for every tongue and nation!
All must come beneath his sway;
his the everlasting kingdom
that shall never pass away.

4 When the stars shall fall from heaven,
and the sun turn black as night,
when the skies recede and vanish,
and the elements ignite.
Then the Son of Man in glory,
coming as the Morning Star,
shall return to claim his loved ones,
gathered in from near and far.

Dyma gariad fel y moroedd William Rees (1802 - 1883) Verses 1 and 2 translated by William Edwards (1848 - 1929) Verses 3 and 4 Richard Bewes (born 1934)
© Richard Bewes/Jubilate Hymns Ltd.

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