Be such it were that we so chose with silence receive thee;
Beneath our feet these very stones should raise a psalmody. (Luke 19:40)
Were not our hearts like unto stones indifferent to God;
They, too, unhardened into hymn should thank thee for Thy Blood.
If stones be capable receive thee with propriety;
Then surely hardened hearts might thus unworthily praise thee.
Were then it such we did so choose thee silently welcome;
Our hearts would cry in joyous praise of God’s true loving Son.
We spread our clothes upon the way graced by Thy Majesty’s ride;
That we may ever sing with chorus of white-robed crucified.
That ever we may choose to praise with heart and lips of dove;
Upris’n within Thine Endless City of God’s Most Holy Love.
All praise then to the Father of Life and Eternal Love.
So too all hymns are due his Ris’n Son of Love.
Belike them praise be sung Co-equal Spirit of Love.
Sing praise to Father, Son and Holy Ghost: Blessed Triune Love.