The Cyber Hymnal ‎#11184

11184. O Highest Love, In Lowliest Guise

1 O highest love, in lowliest guise,
To this our fallen world displayed,
May I discern with cleansèd eyes
The Godhead in our flesh arrayed!

2 O Love, the very Word of God,
Content an infant shape to wear,
And in a stable’s mean abode
To shield Thee from December’s air.

3 O Babe divine, before Thy face
Be mine to bow the thankful knee,
And by Thy soul converting grace
Become a child myself in Thee!

4 One only God, the Father, Son,
And Holy Spirit, we revere,
The everlasting Three in One,
Creator, Savior, Comforter.

Text Information

• First Line: O highest love, in lowliest guise
• Title: O Highest Love, In Lowliest Guise
• Author: Benjamin H. Kennedy
• Meter: LM
• Language: English
• Source: Hymnologia Christiana (London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1863)
• Copyright: Public Domain

Tune Information

• Name: SALVETE FLORES
• Composer: John Bacchus Dykes (1875)
• Meter: LM
• Key: C Major
• Copyright: Public Domain