Love-Feast

Verse 1

Come, thou high and lofty Lord: Lowly, meek, incarnate word; Humbly stoop to earth again; Come, and visit abject man! Jesu, dear expected guest, Thou art bidden to the feast: For thyself our hearts prepare! Come, and sit, and banquet there.

Verse 2

Jesu, we thy promise claim: We are met in thy great name; In the midst do thou appear, Manifest thy presence here: Sanctify us, Lord, and bless: Breathe thy Spirit, give thy peace: Though thyself within us move; Make our feast a feast of love.

Verse 3

Let the fruits of grace abound; Let in us thy bowels sound; Faith, and love, and joy increase, Temperance and gentleness; Plant in us thy humble mind, Patient, pitiful, and kind: Meek and lowly let us be, Full of goodness, full of thee.

Verse 4

Make us all in thee complete: Make us all for glory meet; Meet t' appear before thy sight, Partners with the saints in light: Call, O call us each by name! To the marriage of the Lamb: Let us lean upon thy breast! Love be there our endless feast!