- C Soprano Recorder
- F Alto Recorder
- C Tenor Recorder
- F Bass Recorder
- Verse 1
- Spirit of God, descend upon my heart;
- Wean it from earth, through all its pulses move;
- Stoop to my weakness, mighty as Thou art,
- And make me love Thee as I ought to love.
- Verse 2
- I ask no dream, no prophet-ecstacies,
- No sudden rending of the veil of the clay,
- No angel-visitant, no opening skies;
- But take the dimness of my soul away.
- Verse 3
- Hast Thou not bid me love Thee, God and King—
- All, all Thine own, soul, heart, and strength, and mind?
- I see Thy Cross,—there teach my heart to cling:
- O let me seek Thee, and O let me find!
- Verse 4
- Teach my to feel that Thou art always nigh;
- Teach me the struggles of the soul to bear,
- To check the rising doubt, the rebel sigh;
- Teach me the patience of unanswered prayer.
- Verse 5
- Teach me to love Thee as Thine angels love,
- Only holy passion filling all my frame,—
- The baptism of the heaven-descended Dove,
- Myt heart an altar, and Thy love the flame.
- March 5 entry for the 2022 Weekly Hymns Challenge.
- Morecambe composed 1870 by Frederick Cook Atkinson (1841-1897).
- Lyrics written 1854 by George Croly (1790-1860)
- Hymn #157 in The Hymnary Of The United Church of Canada