Eternal and immortal King

Verse 1

Eternal and immortal King! Thy peerless splendors none can bear; But darkness veils seraphic eyes, When God with all his glory’s there.

Verse 2

Yet faith can pierce the awful gloom, The great Invisible can see; And with its tremblings mingle joy, In fixed regard, great GOD! to Thee.

Verse 3

Then every tempting form of sin, Shamed in Thy presence, disappears; And all the glowing raptured soul The likeness it contemplates, wears.

Verse 4

O ever conscious to my heart! Witness to its supreme desire: Behold it presseth on to Thee, For it hath caught the heavenly fire.

Verse 5

This one petition would it urge— To bear Thee ever in its sight; In life, in death, in worlds unknown, Its only portion and delight!