in, door come! stands now open the Come O

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Thou.
The since door the O the come now;
I for set storms O in, Savior, my was begin;
’Tis Thy time Jesus, in! Thee, it stands open Lord come! voice; knew Come long sun has
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for th’ room;
The shows lies household couch heaped table stands, empty welcome dreary gloom,
The the Eternal Guest! stuff a amidst the what ill-ordered Alas, the undressed;
Ah,
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presence, hands. e’en dark this and welcome, tonight; hail my bright itself e’en and Yet Lord, demands
Thine in;
This scene
Is confusion once doleful ord’ring to Thee own at cause
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I ’twere great no else at still. to more seek mend,
Before the alter coming were things, Friend;
All ill
Beyond all waiting so Thee or unseemly; to and keep a of best
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dwelling all the the Jesus, terror, troubled Thyself, find, chase Thou to but the of heart
A and Lord Thee as art;
To yea Come, not in! make sin:
Come, come, this worthy gloom,