Christ My Song - 629
O Holy Comforter - The Comforter
(Ray Palmer/Johannes Thomas Rüegg)
The Comforter.
"The Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name." (John 14,26)
1. O Holy Comforter,
I hear
thy blessed name with throbbing heart,
pressed oft with sorrow, sin, and fear,
and pierced with many a venomed dart;
come, Messenger Divine,
come, cheer this heart of mine! PDF - Midi
2. O Holy Comforter,
I know
thou art not to dull sense revealed,
thou com'st unseen as the sweet flow
of the soft wind that woes the field;
breathe, Messenger Divine,
breathe on this soul of mine!
3. O Holy Comforter,
thy light
is the eternal and serene;
shine thou, and on my ravished sight
visions shall break of things unseen;
come, Messenger Divine,
make these bright glimpses mine!
4. O Holy Comforter,
thy love
o'erfloweth as the flooding sea;
give me its tenderness to prove,
then shall my heart o'erflow to thee;
come, Messenger Divine,
fill thou this breast of mine!
5. O Holy Comforter,
thy grace
is life and health and hope and power;
by this I can each cross embrace,
can triumph in the darkest hour;
come, Messenger Divine,
the strength of grace be mine!
6. O Holy Comforter,
thy peace,
the peace of God, impart and keep
unruffled till life's tumults cease,
and all its angry tempests sleep;
come, Messenger Divine,
thy perfect peace be mine!
1867.
Ray Palmer, The Poetical Works of Ray Palmer, 1876, 20-21.