Text: | Come Down, O Love Divine |
Author: | Bianco of Siena |
Translator: | R. F. Littledale |
Tune: | DOWN AMPNEY |
Composer: | R. Vaughan Williams |
1 Come down, O Love divine,
seek thou 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 O 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.
3 And so the yearning strong
with which the soul will long,
shall far outpass the power of human telling;
for none can guess its grace,
till he become the place
wherein the Holy Spirit makes his dwelling.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Come down, O Love divine |
Title: | Come Down, O Love Divine |
Author: | Bianco of Siena |
Translator: | R. F. Littledale (1867) |
Meter: | 66.11 D |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1985 |
Topic: | Faith and Aspiration |
Source: | Discendi amor santo |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | DOWN AMPNEY |
Composer: | R. Vaughan Williams (1906) |
Meter: | 66.11 D |
Key: | D Major |