“Our pleasure and our duty” by John Newton

“Our pleasure and our duty,
Though opposite before,
Since we have seen His beauty,
Are join’d to part no more:

It is our highest pleasure,
No less than duty’s call,
To love Him beyond measure,
And serve Him with our all.”

–John Newton, The Works of John Newton, Volume 3 (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1988), 3: 572.