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Text:What Wondrous Love Is This
Author:Alexander Means, 1801-1853
Tune:WONDROUS LOVE

126. What Wondrous Love Is This

1 What wondrous love is this, O my soul, O my soul?
What wondrous love is this, O my soul?
What wondrous love is this that caused the Lord of bliss
To bear the dreadful curse for my soul, for my soul;
To bear the dreadful curse for my soul?

2 To God and to the Lamb I will sing, I will sing;
To God and to the Lamb I will sing;
To God and to the Lamb, who is the great I Am,
While millions join the theme, I will sing, I will sing;
While millions join the theme, I will sing.

3 And when from death I'm free, I'll sing on, I'll sing on;
And when from death I'm free, I'll sing on;
And when from death I'm free, I'll sing and joyful be,
And through eternity I'll sing on, I'll sing on!
And through eternity I'll sing on.

Text Information
First Line: What wondrous love is this, O my soul, O my soul?
Title: What Wondrous Love Is This
Author: Alexander Means, 1801-1853
Meter: 12 9 12 12 9
Language: English
Publication Date: 2001
Tune Information
Name: WONDROUS LOVE
Meter: 12 9 12 12 9
Key: d minor or modal
Source: Southern Harmony, 1855; Harm: Cantate Domino, 1980
Copyright: Harm. © 1980, World Council of Churches



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