I’ve already blogged this text by Frederick William Faber here set to HYFRYDOL.
Catholic Worship Book II prefers IN BABILONE.
The text has more stanzas than CWB II uses (see here) but those chosen by the editors, which I have included below, are extraordinary.
There’s a wideness to God’s mercy like the wideness of the sea,
and forgiveness in his justice sealed for us on Calvary.
There is plentiful redemption through the blood that Christ has shed;
there is joy for all the members in the sorrows of the Head.
For the love of God is broader than the measures of our mind;
and the heart of the Eternal is most wonderfully kind.
But we make his love too narrow by false limits of our own,
and we magnify his strictness with a zeal he will not own.
Restless souls why do you scatter like a crowd of frightened sheep?
Foolish hearts, why do you wander from a love so true and deep?
If our love were more than simple we should take him at his word;
and our lives would be illumined by the goodness of the Lord.