Songs

Hast thou heard Him, seen Him, known Him?

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					8.7.8.7.

1	Hast thou heard Him, seen Him, known Him?
	Is not thine a captured heart?
	Chief among ten thousand own Him,
	Joyful choose the better part.

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 stripped 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 those idols,
	With its bitter void and smart;
	But the beaming of His beauty,
	The unveiling of His heart.

5	'Tis that look that melted Peter,
	'Tis that face that Stephen saw,
	'Tis that heart that wept with Mary,
	Can alone from idols draw:

6	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?

								O. Rowan