This is love, love un-extinguished,
love out lasting time and place,
love surviving crucifixion,
sign of hope and source of grace.
This was God who bled and died there,
very God they scourged and hung,
it was God the child of Mary,
from whom human life was wrung.
Verses 2-3 follow
Tune: CALON LAN
Metre: 8.7.8.7D
Andrew Pratt (born 1948)
Words © 17/3/2013 Stainer & Bell Ltd, London, England, www.stainer.co.uk.
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