LYRICS
| Meter: | 8 6 8 6 (C.M.)
| | Writer(s): | Isaac Watts
| | Transl/Adapt: |
| | Dates: | 1707
| | Bible Refs: | 1 Jn 4:13; Rm 5:5
| A Collection of Hymns (Methodist)
| 1889
| 763
| Baptist Hymnal
| 1956
| 169
| Church Hymnal Revised
| 1920
| 371
| Common Praise (Anglican C. of Canada)
| 1998
| 640
| Hymns and Psalms with SA Sup.
| 1983
| 297
| Hymns and Spiritual Songs Vol 2
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| 34
| Methodist Hymn Book - Hymns
| 1954
| 292
| Presbyterian Hymn Book
| 1990
| 126
| Sacred Songs & Solos: Revised and enlarg
|
| 188
| Sarum Hymnal
| 1869
| 214
| The Book of Common Praise
| 1908
| 419
| The Hymn Book of Angl & Unit Ch Canada
| 1971
| 244
| The Hymnal 1916
| 1916
| 200
| The Hymnal 1940
| 1940
| 369
| The Hymnal 1982
| 1982
| 510
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MUSIC
Baptist Hymnal
| 169
| Ab
| Baptist Hymnal
| 365
| Ab
| Hymns of Faith
| 354
| Ab
| Hymns of Faith
| 529
| Ab
| Methodist Hymn Book - Hymns
| 559
| Ab
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Alternate Tunes
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| 1. Come Holy Spirit, heav'nly 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 no 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 be.
In this poor dying state?
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 pow'rs
Come, shed abroad a Saviour's love
And that shall kindle ours
6. **alt verse***
7. See how we trifle here below,
fond of these earthly toys:
our souls, how heavily they go,
to reach eternal joys.
8. And shall we then for ever live
At this poor dying rate?
Our love so faint, so cold to thee
And thine to us so great!
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