The Stony Heart

Verse 1

Oh for a glance of heavenly day, To take this stubborn heart away, And thaw with beams of love divine This heart, this frozen heart of mine!

Verse 2

The rocks can rend; the earth can quake; The seas can roar; the mountains shake; Of feeling all things show some sign: But this unfeeling heart of mine.

Verse 3

To hear the sorrows thou hast felt, O Lord, an adamant might melt; But I can read each moving line, And nothing moves this heart of mine.

Verse 4

Thy judgments too, which devils fear, (Amazing thought!) unmoved I hear; Goodness and wrath in vain combine, To stir this stupid heart of mine.

Verse 5

Eternal Spirit! mighty God! Apply to me the Saviour's blood; 'Tis His rich blood, and His alone, Can move and melt this heart of stone.