Sweet Communion with God

Verse 1

Sweet is the prayer whose holy stream In earnest pleading flows; Devotion dwells upon the theme, And warm and warmer glows, And warm and warmer glows.

Verse 2

Faith grasps the blessings she desires, Hope points the upward gaze; And love, untrembling love, inspires The eloquence of praise, The eloquence of praise.

Verse 3

But sweeter far the still small voice, Heard by no human ear, When God hath made the heart rejoice, And dried the bitter tear, And dried the bitter tear.

Verse 4

Nor accents flow, nor words ascend; All utt'rance faileth there; But God himself doth comprehend, And hear th'unended prayer, And hear th'unended prayer.