Text: | Holy Spirit, Gracious Guest |
Author: | Christopher Wordsworth (1807-1885) |
Tune: | GUILDFORD CATHEDRAL |
Composer: | Grayston Ives (1948- ) |
1 Holy Spirit, gracious guest,
Hear and grant our heart’s request
For that gift supreme and best:
Holy heav’nly love.
2 Faith that mountains could remove,
Tongues of earth or heaven above,
Knowledge, all things, empty prove
If I have no love.
3 Though I as a martyr bleed,
Give my goods the poor to feed,
All is vain if love I need:
Therefore give me love.
4 Love is kind and suffers long,
Love is pure and thinks no wrong,
Love than death it self more strong:
Therefore give us love.
5 Prophecy will fade away,
Melting in the light of day;
Love will ever with us stay:
Therefore give us love.
6 Faith and hope and love we see
Joining hand in hand agree-
But the greatest of the three,
And the best is love.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Holy Spirit, gracious guest, Hear and grant our heart's request |
Title: | Holy Spirit, Gracious Guest |
Author: | Christopher Wordsworth (1807-1885) |
Meter: | 7.7.7.5. |
Publication Date: | 1985 |
Scripture: | |
Topic: | Christan Life: Love for One Another |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | GUILDFORD CATHEDRAL |
Composer: | Grayston Ives (1948- ) |
Meter: | 7.7.7.5. |
Incipit: | 56512 32345 54325 |
Key: | F Major or modal |
Music printed by permission of Basil Ramsey Publisher of Music Ltd.