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#804 from Evangelical Lutheran Worship
Come down, O Love divine
Tune
Down Ampney
Metric Index
6 6 11 6 6 11
Key & Modality
D Major
Last uses
No previous uses
Poem Words (four verses)
1.
Come down, O Love divine;
seek out this soul of mine
and visit it with thine own ardor glowing;
O Comforter, draw near;
within my heart appear
and kindle it, thy holy flame bestowing.
seek out this soul of mine
and visit it with thine own ardor glowing;
O Comforter, draw near;
within my heart appear
and kindle it, thy holy flame bestowing.
2.
Oh, let it freely burn,
till earthly passions turn
to dust and ashes in its heat consuming;
and let thy glorious light
shine ever on my sight,
and clothe me round, the while my path illuming.
till earthly passions turn
to dust and ashes in its heat consuming;
and let thy glorious light
shine ever on my sight,
and clothe me round, the while my path illuming.
3.
Let holy charity
mine outward vesture be,
and lowliness become mine inner clothing --
true lowliness of heart,
which takes the humbler part,
and o'er its own shortcomings weeps with loathing.
mine outward vesture be,
and lowliness become mine inner clothing --
true lowliness of heart,
which takes the humbler part,
and o'er its own shortcomings weeps with loathing.
4.
And so the yearning strong,
with which the soul will long,
shall far outpass the pow'r of human telling;
no soul can guess Love's grace
till it become the place
wherein the Holy Spirit makes a dwelling.
with which the soul will long,
shall far outpass the pow'r of human telling;
no soul can guess Love's grace
till it become the place
wherein the Holy Spirit makes a dwelling.
Hymn References
Author
Bianco da Siena d. 1434
Composer
Ralph Vaughan Williams 1872-1958
Original Language
Italian
Publication Date
2006
Topic
Invocation; Pentecost, Holy Spirit; Commitment, Discipleship; Humility (1 more...)
Translator
Richard F. Littledale 1833-1890
Other Hymns By Tune (in Zack's Database)
#516 in The Hymnal 1982 (Episcopal) / Come down, O Love divine (D Major ) [click to view]#508 in Lutheran Book of Worship / Come down, O love divine (D Major ) [click to view]
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