Text: | Come Down, O Love Divine |
Author: | Bianco da Siena |
Translator: | Richard F. 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 out-pass the power of human telling;
For none can guess its grace,
Till he become the place
Wherein the Holy Spirit makes his dwelling.
Amen.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Come down, O Love divine |
Title: | Come Down, O Love Divine |
Translator: | Richard F. Littledale (1867, alt. 1972) |
Author: | Bianco da Siena (ca. 1367) |
Meter: | 6.6.11.D. |
Publication Date: | 1972 |
Scripture: | |
Topic: | Sacraments: Baptism; Acts of the Church: Confirmation; Acts of the Church: Ordination(2 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | DOWN AMPNEY |
Composer: | Ralph Vaughan Williams (1906) |
Meter: | 6.6.11.D. |
Key: | D Major |
Copyright: | Music from The English Hymnal; used by permission of Oxford University Press. |