Classic Poem

I.

Come heavenly love, inspire my song
With thy immortal flame,
And teach my heart, and teach my tongue
The Saviour's lovely name.

II.

The Saviour! O what endless charms
Dwell in the blissful sound!
Its influence every fear disarms,
And spreads sweet comfort round.

III.

Here pardon, life, and joys divine
In rich effusion flow,
For guilty rebels lost in sin,
And doom'd to endless woe.

IV.

In our first parent's crime we fell;
Our blood, our vital breath
Deep ting'd with all the seeds of ill,
Sad heirs to sin and death.

V.

Black o'er our wrath-devoted heads
Avenging justice frown'd;
While hell disclos'd her deepest shades,
And horrors rose around.

VI.

Wrap'd in the gloom of dark despair,
We helpless, hopeless lay:
But sovereign mercy reach'd us there,
And smil'd despair away.

VII.

God's only son, (stupendous grace!)
Forsook his throne above;
And swist to save our wretched race,
He flew on wings of love.

VIII.

Th' Almighty former of the skies
Stoop'd to our vile abode;
While angels view'd with wondering eyes,
And hail'd th' incarnate God.

IX.

The God in heavenly strains they sung,
Array'd in human clay;
Mysterious love! what angel tongue
Thy wonders can display?

X.

Mysterious love, in every scene,
Through all his life appears:
His spotless life expos'd to pain,
And miseries and tears.