What a Love!!!

The King of Love my Shepherd is;

whose goodness faileth never;

I nothing lack, if I am His;

and He is mine forever.

Where streams of living waters flow;

my ransomed souls he leadeth;

and, where the verdant pastures grow,

with food celestial feedth.

Perverse and foolish oft I strayed,

but yet in Love He Sought me,

and on His shoulder gently laid,

and home, rejoicing, brought me.

In death 's dark vale I fear no ill,

with Thee, dear Lord, beside me;

Thy rod and staff my comfort still,

Thy cross before to guide me.

And so through all the length of days,

Thy goodness faileth never:

good Shepherd, may I sing Thy praise,

within Thy House forever!

Henry Williams Baker, 1821-77