Eternal and Immortal King

Eternal and im­mor­tal King

Thy peer­less splen­dors none can bear;

But dark­ness veils se­raph­ic eyes

When God with all His lus­ter’s there.

Yet faith can pierce the aw­ful gloom

The great In­vi­si­ble can see;

And with its trem­blings min­gle joy

In fixed re­gards

great God

to Thee.

Then ev­ery tempt­ing form of sin

Shamed in Thy pre­sence

dis­ap­pears;

And all the glow­ing rap­tured soul

The like­ness it con­tem­plates it wears

O ev­er con­scious to my heart

Witness to its su­preme de­sire

Behold

it press­eth on to Thee

For it hath caught the heav’n­ly fire.

This one pe­ti­tion would it urge

To bear Thee ev­er in its sight;

In life

in death

in worlds un­known

Its on­ly por­tion and de­light.