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| Text: | Come Down, O Love Divine |
| Author: | Bianco da Siena |
| Translator: | Richard Frederick Littledale |
| Tune: | DOWN AMPNEY |
| Composer: | Ralph Vaughan Williams |
1 Come down, O Love divine,
Seek out this soul of mine
And visit it with Your own ardor glowing;
O Comforter, draw near,
Within my heart appear,
And kindle it, Your holy flame bestowing.
2 O let it freely burn,
Till earthly passions turn
To dust and ashes in its heat consuming;
And let Your glorious light
Shine ever on my sight,
And clothe me round, the while my path illuming.
3 And so the yearning strong
With which the soul will long
Shall far outpass the power of human telling;
For none can guess God's grace,
Till Love creates a place
Wherein the Holy Spirit makes a dwelling.
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| First Line: | Come down, O Love divine |
| Title: | Come Down, O Love Divine |
| Author: | Bianco da Siena |
| Translator: | Richard Frederick Littledale (1867; alt.) |
| Meter: | 6.6.11 D |
| Language: | English |
| Publication Date: | 1990 |
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| Name: | DOWN AMPNEY |
| Composer: | Ralph Vaughan Williams (1906) |
| Meter: | 6.6.11 D |
| Key: | D Major |
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