My Song Is Love Unknown
1. My song is love unknown, my Savior’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, | 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. In life, no house, no home |
– Samuel Crossman (1623-1683)
Sung by Susan Diamond
Commentary: “My Song Is Love Unknown” is the best-known hymn of Anglican minister Samuel Crossman. Crossman wrote it in 1664, in the midst of a period of exile from the Church of England, where he had caused controversy with his support of Puritanism. This he later renounced, and once reinstated in the Church, he became a royal chaplain, then, in 1683, a dean of Bristol Cathedral.