This my heart doth seek;
Experience of Christ in all
The offerings we bring.
Once God as life supply,
Now Eden’s ground withheld;
To taste the tree of life requires
An entrance once again.
For the courts of the Lord;
My heart and flesh cry out
To my God.
Weakest sparrow may draw near.
The swallow come for refuge and
A nest for tender care.
Redeemed may entrance find,
And offer thus in prayer
The resurrected Christ in His
Ascension, fragrance rare.
Hath made a living way,
Our boldness now for entering
Within the Holiest Place.
’Tis here within the ark
Eternal portion share.
Incarnate Triune God and we
One testimony bear.
With God, now consummate,
We’re mingled, one, incorp’rate
In this mutual dwelling place.
The priests who live to God
Elect among man’s race.
Now Christ’s own Body are,
To have His foretaste in this age.