Music by Sir Joseph Barnby
Words by Dorothy Frances Gurney
1883
Origin : https://hymnary.org/text/o_perfect_love_all_human_thought_transc
'Ah, there you have me. But I was. Still, don't let me take the joy out of your life. For all we know, she may at this very moment be practising "O Perfect Love" on the harmonium. [...]'
Heavy Weather. Chapter 5
He watched her go, knowing that she was going out of his life and that any chance of the scent of orange–blossoms and the amble up the aisle with the organ playing 'O perfect Love' was now blue round the edges; and it was as if there was a dull weight pressing on him.
Young Men in Spats. 7 Noblesse Oblige
'I shall watch you walking up the aisle with Florence Craye, and not stir a finger to save you. In fact, you will hear a voice singing "Oh, perfect love" rather louder than the rest of the congregation, and it will be mine. Reconsider, Bertie. That is what I advise.'
Joy in the Morning. Chapter 20
'Met him? You bet I've met him. It was only a week before I left the States that I was singing "Oh, perfect love" at his wedding.'
Ring for Jeeves. Chapter 22
'Well, I'll tell you, old ancestor. When a fellow has been engaged as often as I have and each time saved from from the scaffold at the eleventh hour, he comes to have faith in his star. He feels that all is not lost till they have actually got him at the altar rails with the organ playing "Oh, Perfect Love" and the clergyman saying "Wilt thou?" At the moment, admittedly, I am in a soup, but it may well be that in God's good time it will be granted to me to emerge unscathed from the tureen.'
Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit. Chapter 15
The scene was a church, and he, in a cutaway coat and striped trousers, was walking down the aisle with this silver–voiced girl on his arm while the organ played 'Oh, Perfect Love' and the spectators in the ringside pews whispered 'What a charming couple!'.
Something Fishy. Chapter 6