Holy Spirit, gracious guest,
Hear
and grant our heart’s request
For
that gift supreme and best:
Holy
heav’nly love.
2
Faith
that mountains could remove,
Tongues
of earth or heaven above,
Knowledge,
all things, empty prove
If
I have no love.
3
Though
I as a martyr bleed,
Give
my goods the poor to feed,
All
is vain if love I need:
Therefore
give me love.
4
Love
is kind and suffers long,
Love
is pure and thinks no wrong,
Love
than death itself more strong:
Therefore
give us love.
5
Prophecy
will fade away,
Melting
in the light of days;
Love
will ever with us stay:
Therefore
give us love.
6
Faith
and Hope and love we see
Joining
hand in hand agree
But
the greatest of the three,
And
the best is love.