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Hast thou heard Him, seen Him, known Him?
Is not thine a captured heart?
Chief among ten thousand own Him;
Joyful choose the better part.
Is not thine a captured heart?
Chief among ten thousand own Him;
Joyful choose the better part.
Captivated by His beauty,
Worthy tribute haste to bring;
Let His peerless worth constrain thee,
Crown Him now unrivaled King.
Worthy tribute haste to bring;
Let His peerless worth constrain thee,
Crown Him now unrivaled King.
2
Idols once they won thee, charmed thee,
Lovely things of time and sense;
Gilded thus does sin disarm thee,
Honeyed lest thou turn thee thence.
Lovely things of time and sense;
Gilded thus does sin disarm thee,
Honeyed lest thou turn thee thence.
3
What has stripped the seeming beauty
From the idols of the earth?
Not a sense of right or duty,
But the sight of peerless worth.
From the idols of the earth?
Not a sense of right or duty,
But the sight of peerless worth.
4
Not the crushing of those idols,
With its bitter void and smart;
But the beaming of His beauty,
The unveiling of His heart.
With its bitter void and smart;
But the beaming of His beauty,
The unveiling of His heart.
5
Who extinguishes their taper
Till they hail the rising sun?
Who discards the garb of winter
Till the summer has begun?
Till they hail the rising sun?
Who discards the garb of winter
Till the summer has begun?
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’Tis that look that melted Peter,
’Tis that face that Stephen saw,
’Tis that heart that wept with Mary,
Can alone from idols draw:
’Tis that face that Stephen saw,
’Tis that heart that wept with Mary,
Can alone from idols draw:
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Draw and win and fill completely,
Till the cup o’erflow the brim;
What have we to do with idols
Who have companied with Him?
Till the cup o’erflow the brim;
What have we to do with idols
Who have companied with Him?
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Riverside, CA, United States
"Draw and win and fill completely,
Till the cup o’erflow the brim"
- Lord Draw me (us)
- Lord win me (us)
- Lord fill me (us) completely
Till the cup o’erflow the brim
Irvine, CA, United States
Lord, we are captivated by Your beauty!
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Brother Leo, "Honeyed lest thou turn thee thence" goes along with the phrase "Gilded thus does sin disarm thee." These idols of the world, these things that distract us from the Lord do so because they are gilded or "honeyed." The honey and the gilding here indicate that underneath is something base, something unpleasant, something grotesque, so there is the need to cover up the satanic nature of idols with something that appears pleasant. But as the hymn progresses, we see that we see something far, far superior. We see the Lord Himself! The beaming of His beauty, the unveiling of His heart is enough to draw and win and fill us completely!
Australia
'Honeyed lest thou turn thee thence?' Can somebody help me translate this into modern language?
Sinacaban, Mis.occ, Philippines
Anything that replaces God is an idol. We can't deny the fact that there are still so many idols within us. So what do I/we do with idols? Just 3 points to kill the idols: LOOK (just like Peter's experience), FACE (like Stephen's experience) and HEART (like Mary's experience). How we need to SEE HIM, how we need to HEAR HIM, and how we need to KNOW HIM. So PRAISE GOD, I'm also one among ten thousands CAPTIVATED by the Lord's beauty.