Shall We Not Love Thee, Mother Dear ST. AGNUS—Rev. John Bacchus Dykes Shall We Not Love Thee, Mother Dear 1 Shall we not love thee, Mother dear, Whom Jesus loves so well? And, to His glory, year by year, Thy joy and honour tell? 2 Bound with the curse of sin and shame We helpless sinners lay, Until in tender love He came To bear the curse away. 3 And thee He chose from whom to take True flesh His Flesh to be; In It to suffer for our sake, By It to make us free. 4 Thy Babe He lay upon thy