HAST THOU HEARD HIM, SEEN HIM, KNOWN HIM?
1. Hast thou heard
Him, seen Him, known Him?
Is not thine a
captured heart?
As the fairest of
thousands own Him,
Joyful choose the
better part?
Refrain
Thou art the
fairest of thousands to me;
Seize Thou my heart,
cause my blind eyes to see.
Crushing all idols,
with joy I crown Thee
As the fairest of
thousands to me.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Not the crushing
of these idols,
With its bitter
void and smart;
But the beaming of
His beauty,
The unveiling of
His heart.
5. Who extinguishes
their taper
Till they hail the
rising sun?
Who discards the
garb of winter
Till the summer has
begun?
6. 'Tis that look
that melted Peter,
'Tis that face that
Stephen saw,
'Tis that heart
that wept with Mary,
Can alone from
idols draw.
7. 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?
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