Thanks for being a Hymnary.org user. You are one of more than 10 million people from 200-plus countries around the world who have benefitted from the Hymnary website in 2024! If you feel moved to support our work today with a gift of any amount and a word of encouragement, we would be grateful.

You can donate online at our secure giving site.

Or, if you'd like to make a gift by check, please make it out to CCEL and mail it to:
Christian Classics Ethereal Library, 3201 Burton Street SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546
And may the promise of Advent be yours this day and always.

Click here to donate to Hymnary.org I have already donated. Please don't show this to me again
Text:Th' uplifted eye, and bended knee

280. Th' uplifted eye, and bended knee

1 Th' uplifted eye and bended knee,
Are but vain homage, Lord! to thee
In vain our lips thy praise prolong,
The heart a stranger to the song.

2 Can rites, and forms, and flaming zeal,
The breaches of thy precepts heal?
Or fasts and penance reconcile
Thy justice, and obtain thy smile?

3 The pure, the humble, contrite mind,
Sincere, and to thy will resign'd,
To thee a nobler off'ring yields
Than Sheba’s groves, or Sharon’s fields.

4 Love God and man:—this great command
Doth on eternal pillars stand.
This did Thine ancient prophets teach,
This did the great Messiah preach.

Text Information
First Line: Th' uplifted eye, and bended knee
Meter: L. M.
Language: English
Publication Date: 1814
Topic: The Christian Character and Life, In General
Tune Information
(No tune information)



Suggestions or corrections? Contact us
It looks like you are using an ad-blocker. Ad revenue helps keep us running. Please consider white-listing Hymnary.org or getting Hymnary Pro to eliminate ads entirely and help support Hymnary.org.