Come, O Creator Spirit Blest

Verse 1

Come, Holy Ghost, Creator blest, and make our hearts your place of rest; come with your grace and heav'nly aid, and fill the hearts which you have made.

Verse 2

To you, the Counselor, we cry, to you, the gift of God most high, the fount of life, the fire of love, the soul's anointing from above.

Verse 3

In you, with graces sevenfold, we God's almighty hand behold while you with tongues of fire proclaim to all the world his holy name.

Verse 4

Your light to ev'ry thought impart, and shed your love in ev'ry heart; the weakness of our mortal state with deathless might invigorate.

Verse 5

Drive far away our wily foe, and your abiding peace bestow; with you as our protecting guide, no evil can with us abide.

Verse 6

Teach us to know the Father, Son, and you, from both, as Three in One that we your name may ever bless and in our lives the truth confess.

Verse 7

Praise we the Father and the Son and Holy Spirit, with them One, and may the Son on us bestow the gifts that from the Spirit flow!