6-8s. 1 JESUS, with kindest pity see The souls that would be one in thee: If now, accepted in thy sight, Thou dost our upright hearts unite, Allow us even on earth to prove The noblest joys of heavenly love.
2 Before thy glorious eyes we spread The wish which doth from thee proceed: Our love from earthly dross refine; Holy, angelical, divine, Thee its great Author let it show, And back to the pure fountain flow.
3 A drop of that unbounded sea, O Lord, resorb it into thee! While all our souls, with restless strife, Spring up into eternal life, And, lost in endless raptures, prove Thy whole immensity of love.
4 A spark of that ethereal fire, Still let it to its source aspire, To thee in every wish return, Intensely for thy glory burn; While all our souls fly up to thee, And blaze through all eternity.
