Text: | Spirit of God! Descend |
Author: | George Croly |
Tune: | MORECAMBE |
Composer: | Frederick C. Atkinson |
1 Spirit of God! descend upon my heart.
Wean it from earth, through all its pulses move.
Stoop to my weakness, mighty as thou art,
and make me love thee as I ought to love.
2 I ask no dream, no prophet ecstasies,
no sudden rending of the veil of clay,
no angel visitant, no op’ning skies,
but take the dimness of my soul away.
3 Hast thou not bid us love thee, Holy One?
All, all thine own: soul, heart, and strength, and mind.
I see thy cross—there call my heart to run.
Oh, let me seek thee, and oh, let me find!
4 Teach me to feel that thou art always nigh.
Teach me the struggles of the soul to bear,
to check the rising doubt, the rebel sigh;
teach me the patience of unanswered prayer.
5 Teach me to love thee as thine angels love,
one holy passion filling all my frame;
the baptism of the heav’n-descended dove,
my heart an altar, and thy love the flame.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Spirit of God! descend upon my heart |
Title: | Spirit of God! Descend |
Author: | George Croly |
Meter: | 10.10.10.10 |
Publication Date: | 2020 |
Scripture: | ; ; |
Topic: | Baptism; Doubt; Holy Spirit(4 more...) |
Source: | Lyra Brittanica, 1867, alt. |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | MORECAMBE |
Composer: | Frederick C. Atkinson (1870) |
Meter: | 10.10.10.10 |
Key: | C Major |
Source: | Congregational Church Hymnal, 1887 |