No track is on the sunny sky

Verse 1

No track is on the sunny sky, No footprints on the air: Jesus hath gone; the face of earth Is desolate and bare.

Verse 2

That upper room is heaven on earth; Within its precincts lie All that earth has of faith or hope Or heaven-born charity.

Verse 3

One moment--and the silentness Was breathless as the grave: The fluttered earth forgot to quake, The troubled trees to wave.

Verse 4

He comes! he comes! that mighty breath From heaven's eternal shores; His uncreated freshness fills His Bride, as she adores.

Verse 5

Earth quakes before that rushing blast, Heaven echoes back the sound, And mightily the tempest wheels That upper room around.

Verse 6

One moment--and the Spirit hung O'er all with dread desire; Then broke upon the heads of all In cloven tongues of fire!