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O HOLY GHOST! come as the DEW, | |
| All soft and still this quiet eve; | |
| Our first-love’s joy do Thou renew, | |
| As to those who did first believe. | |
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| O Holy Ghost! come as the FIRE, | 5 |
| In our cold hearts light up Thy flame; | |
| That touch’d of Thee, we may aspire, | |
| And shrink not from His glorious shame. | |
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| O Holy Ghost! come as the WIND, | |
| To shake quick ev’ry barrier down; | 10 |
| That, restfully on Him reclin’d, | |
| We Him, He us, may gracious own. | |
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| O Holy Ghost! come as the RAIN, | |
| That sweetly heals the new-mown grass; | |
| Refresh and strengthen, that again | 15 |
| We on our upward way may pass. | |
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| O Holy Ghost! come as the LIGHT, | |
| Pure-breaking as doth break the Day; | |
| Work in us by Thy gentle might, | |
| Such hopes as shall our fears affray. | 20 |
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| O Holy Ghost! be Thou our LIFE, | |
| Our life that’s hid with Christ in God; | |
| Make Thou us strong in the sore strife, | |
| Guarding us in the paths He trod. | |
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| O Dew! O Fire! O Wind! O Rain! | 25 |
| O Light of Life! O Life of Light! | |
| We would the height of heights attain,— | |
| We would be strengthen’d by Thy MIGHT. | |
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