1 Lord, who didst the prophets teach
To prepare Thy way of old;
And by Thy apostles preach
Truths of wisdom manifold;
2 Teach us to behold Thee, Lord,
Present in the sacred page,
Living Word in written word;
Coming thus to every age.
3 Coming in King David’s psalms,
In Isaiah’s trumpet-call,
In St. John’s deep, quiet calms,
In the glowing fires of Paul.
4 Coming brightly from afar
To the lands with darkness dim,
On the evangelic car
Of Thy fourfold cherubim.
5 Thus, O blessèd Lord, when we
On Thy Holy Scriptures look,
May we ever worship Thee,
Coming in Thy sacred book.
6 So, when as a scroll is past
Heav’n, and earth with all its strife,
We may see our names at last
Written in the Book of Life.
Source: The Cyber Hymnal #16063
Christopher Wordsworth--nephew of the great lake-poet, William Wordsworth--was born in 1807. He was educated at Winchester, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A., with high honours, in 1830; M.A. in 1833; D.D. in 1839. He was elected Fellow of his College in 1830, and public orator of the University in 1836; received Priest's Orders in 1835; head master of Harrow School in 1836; Canon of Westminster Abbey in 1844; Hulsean Lecturer at Cambridge in 1847-48; Vicar of Stanford-in-the-Vale, Berks, in 1850; Archdeacon of Westminster, in 1865; Bishop of Lincoln, in 1868. His writings are numerous, and some of them very valuable. Most of his works are in prose. His "Holy Year; or, Hymns for Sundays, Holidays, and other occ… Go to person page >
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