My song is love unknown,
My Saviour’s love to me;
Love to the loveless shown,
That they might lovely be.
O who am I,
That for my sake
My Lord should take
Frail flesh and die?
-Samuel Crossman (1664)
Entire text at Cyberhymnal. Our book has five of the verses, and we sing it to the tune CALKIN.
What is your song?
Mind Renewers 
I love this text. Heard it first at Faith Free Pres. in Greenville when Alan Cairns was still pastoring there. i love how it goes through the “old, old story”.
“Love to the loveless shown, that they might lovely be” is one of my favourite lines.
Sorted out the formatting. 🙂
We sang this in church this morning – all seven verses. I admit that sometimes I’m inured to the Gospel- bored, maybe ,I’m ashamed to say. But this hymn brought me to tears- a real “Holy Spirit Moment”.
Centuries later, a hymnwriter still leaves a mark.. And the Holy Spirit moves in this 50-something…
Hi, Judi. There are so many ways the Lord reminds us of what He has done for us, and the old hymns can still be so powerful, can’t they? Thank you for the comment.