Hast thou heard Him

- Hast thou heard Him, seen Him, known Him?
- Is not thine a captured heart?
- Chief among ten thousand own Him,
- joyful choose the better part.
- Idols once they won thee, charmed thee,
- lovely things of time and sense;
- gilded thus does sin disarm thee,
- honeyed lest thou turn thee thence.
- What has stript the seeming beauty
- from the idols of the earth?
- Not a sense of right or duty,
- but the sight of peerless worth.
- Not the crushing of those idols,
- with its bitter void and smart;
- but the beaming of His beauty
- the unveiling of His heart.
- Who extinguishes their taper
- till they hail the rising sun?
- Who discards the garb of winter
- till the summer has begun?
- „This that look that melted Peter,
- „This that face that Stephen saw,
- „This that heart that wept with Mary,
- can alone from idols draw:
- Draw and win and fill completely,
- till the cup o‟erflow the brim;
- what have we to do with idols
- who have companied with Him?
Album: English Hymns, Artist: Unknown Artist, Language: English, Viewed: 826 times