260 Of The Father's Love Begotten

1. Of the Father's love begotten,Ere the worlds began to be,He is Alpha and Omega,He the source, the ending He,Of the things that are, that have been,And that future years shall see,Evermore and evermore.2. At his word the worlds were framèd;He commanded, it was done:Heav’n and earth and depths of ocean,In their threefold order one;All that grows beneath the shiningOf the moon and burning sun—[Evermore and evermore.]3. He was found in human fashion,Death and sorrow here to know,That the race of Adam’s children,Doomed by law to endless woe,May not henceforth die and perishIn the dreadful gulf below—[Evermore and evermore.]4. O that birth forever blessèd,When the virgin, full of grace,By the Holy Ghost conceiving,Bore the Savior of our race,And the babe, the world’s Redeemer,First revealed his sacred face—[Evermore and evermore.]