589 Holy Spirit Gracious Guest
[1]
Holy Spirit gracious guest
Hear and grant our heart s request
For that gift supreme and best
Holy heav nly love.
Holy Spirit gracious guest
Hear and grant our heart s request
For that gift supreme and best
Holy heav nly love.
[2]
Faith that mountains could remove
Tongues of earth or heaven above
Knowledge all things empty prove
If I have no love.
Faith that mountains could remove
Tongues of earth or heaven above
Knowledge all things empty prove
If I have no love.
[3]
Though I as a martyr bleed
Give my goods the poor to feed
All is vain if love I need:
Therefore give me love.
Though I as a martyr bleed
Give my goods the poor to feed
All is vain if love I need:
Therefore give me love.
[4]
Love is kind and suffers long
Love is pure and thinks no wrong;
Love than death ifself more strong:
Therefore give us love.
Love is kind and suffers long
Love is pure and thinks no wrong;
Love than death ifself more strong:
Therefore give us love.
[5]
Prophecy will fade away
Melting in the light of day;
Love will ever with us stay:
Therefore give us love.
Prophecy will fade away
Melting in the light of day;
Love will ever with us stay:
Therefore give us love.
[6]
Faith and hope and love we see
Joining hand in had agree-
But the greatest of the three
And the best is love.
Faith and hope and love we see
Joining hand in had agree-
But the greatest of the three
And the best is love.