Text: | Come down, O Love divine |
Author: | Bianco da Siena, d.1434 |
Translator: | Richard Frederick Littledale, 1833 - 90 |
Tune: | DOWN AMPNEY |
Composer: | R. Vaughan Williams, 1872 - 1958 |
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 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.
4 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 |
Translator: | Richard Frederick Littledale, 1833 - 90 |
Author: | Bianco da Siena, d.1434 |
Meter: | 6 6, 11. D. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1958 |
Topic: | The Church Year: Pentecost - The Holy Ghost; The Church: Worship - The Beginning of Service; The Life in Christ: Aspiration(1 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | DOWN AMPNEY |
Composer: | R. Vaughan Williams, 1872 - 1958 |
Meter: | 6 6, 11. D. |
Key: | D Major |