Non-metrical (literal) English Version
- The sweet memory of Jesus
- Giving true joy to the heart,
- But more than honey and all things
- Is his sweet presence.
- Nothing more delightful is sung,
- Nothing more pleasing heard,
- Nothing sweeter thought,
- Than Jesus, the Son of God.
- O Jesus, hope of the penitent,
- How gracious you are to those who ask
- How good those who see;
- But what to those who find?
- No tongue may tell,
- No letter express;
- He who has experience of it can believe
- What it is to love Jesus.
- O Jesus, may you be our joy,
- You who are our future reward.
- May our glory be in you
- Throughout all eternity.
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