HYMN: My song is love unknown | Ife Re l’orin mi

ENGLISH LYRICS: My song is love unknown

1.  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?

2.  He came from His blest throne
     Salvation to bestow;
     But men made strange, and none
     The longed-for Christ would know:
     But O! my Friend,
     My Friend indeed,
     Who at my need
     His life did spend.

3.  Sometimes they strew His way,
     And His sweet praises sing;
     Resounding all the day
     Hosannas to their King:
     Then “Crucify!”
     is all their breath,
     And for His death
     they thirst and cry.

4.  They rise and needs will have
     My dear Lord made away;
     A murderer they save,
     The Prince of life they slay,
     Yet cheerful He
     to suffering goes,
     That He His foes
     from thence might free.

5.  Here might I stay and sing,
     No story so divine;
     Never was love, dear King!
     Never was grief like Thine.
     This is my Friend,
     in Whose sweet praise
     I all my days
     could gladly spend.
Amen.

YORUBA LYRICS: Ife Re l’orin mi

1.  Ife Re l’orin mi,
    Ife Jesu si mi
    Ife si elese
    Lati tu won sile
    Tani mo je, Kini mo je?
    Ti Kristi wa ku fun emi

2.  O f’ite Re sile,
    Lati mu ‘gbala wa
    Kos’eniti’o je gba,
    Lati se l’alejo
    Sibe Ore odod ni
    O npese fun gbogbo ‘aini wa

3.  Niga kan won nkorin,
    Nwon si nke ‘Hosanna’,
    Nwon te aso s’ona,
    Nwon npe ni Oba won
    Awon na l’o tun kigbe pe
     “Ba wa kan mo agbelebu”

4.  Nwon ko Oluwa i
    Nwon yan apania
    Nwon ko Olore won
    Olosa ni nwon fe
    Sibe, O farada iya
    O ngbadura fun ota Re

5.  Itan iyanu yi,
    L’emi o korin re
    Oba bi Re ko si,
    To mo irora nla,
    Ngo ma rohin Ore mi yi
    Gbogb’aiye mi ni ngo fi sin

    My Saviour’s love to me; Composed by: Samuel Crossman