995. Come, Holy Spirit, Heavenly Dove

1. Come, Holy Spirit, heavenly Dove,
With all Thy quick’ning powers;
Kindle a flame of sacred love
In these cold hearts of ours.

2. Look how we grovel here below,
Fond of these trifling toys;
Our souls can neither fly nor go
To reach eternal joys.

3. In vain we tune our formal songs,
In vain we strive to rise;
Hosannas languish on our tongues,
And our devotion dies.

4. Dear Lord! and shall we ever live
At this poor dying rate?
Our love so faint, so cold to Thee,
And Thine to us so great?

5. Come, Holy Spirit, heav’nly Dove,
With all Thy quick’ning powers;
Come, shed abroad the Savior’s love
And that shall kindle ours.

Text Information
First Line: Come, Holy Spirit, heavenly Dove
Title: Come, Holy Spirit, Heavenly Dove
Author: Isaac Watts (1709)
Meter: CM
Language: English
Source: Hymns and Sacred Songs, 1707-9, Book II, number 34
Copyright: Public Domain
Notes: Alternate tune: GRÄFENBERG, Johann Crüger, 1647
Tune Information
Name: ST. AGNES
Composer: John Bacchus Dykes (1866)
Meter: CM
Incipit: 33323 47155 53224
Key: G Major
Source: Hymnal for Use in the English Church, by John Grey, 1866
Copyright: Public Domain



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