Hymn: Pour forth the oil, pour boldly forth
- Title:
- First Line: Pour forth the oil, pour boldly forth
- Hymnal: A Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion (15th ed.)
- Denomination: Unitarians and Universalists
- Publisher: Ticknor and Fields
- Publication Date: 1866
Author(s)
- Author Name: Richard Chenevix Trench
- Born: 1807
- Died: 1886
- Gender: M
Full Text
Pour forth the oil,—pour boldly forth; It will not fail, until Thou failest vessels to provide Which it may largely fill. Make channels for the streams of love, Where they may broadly run; And love has overflowing streams, To fill them every one. But if at any time we cease Such channels to provide, The very founts of love for us Will soon be parched and dried. For we must share, if we would keep That blessing from above; Ceasing to give, we cease to have;— Such is the law of love.