The Cyber Hymnal ‎#995

995. Come, Holy Spirit, Heavenly Dove

1. Come, Holy Spirit, heavenly Dove,
With all Thy quick’ning powers;
Kindle a flame of sacred love
In these cold hearts of ours.

2. Look how we grovel here below,
Fond of these trifling toys;
Our souls can neither fly nor go
To reach eternal joys.

3. In vain we tune our formal songs,
In vain we strive to rise;
Hosannas languish on our tongues,
And our devotion dies.

4. Dear Lord! and shall we ever live
At this poor dying rate?
Our love so faint, so cold to Thee,
And Thine to us so great?

5. Come, Holy Spirit, heav’nly Dove,
With all Thy quick’ning powers;
Come, shed abroad the Savior’s love
And that shall kindle ours.

Text Information

• First Line: Come, Holy Spirit, heavenly Dove
• Title: Come, Holy Spirit, Heavenly Dove
• Author: Isaac Watts (1709)
• Meter: CM
• Language: English
• Source: Hymns and Sacred Songs, 1707-9, Book II, number 34
• Copyright: Public Domain
• Notes: Alternate tune: GRÄFENBERG, Johann Crüger, 1647

Tune Information

• Name: ST. AGNES
• Composer: John Bacchus Dykes (1866)
• Meter: CM
• Incipit: 33323 47155 53224
• Key: G Major
• Source: Hymnal for Use in the English Church, by John Grey, 1866
• Copyright: Public Domain