How shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the high God?
Micah 6:6
Words: William H. Drummond, in A Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion, 10th edition, edited by Samuel Longfellow (Boston, Massachusetts: Ticknor & Fields, 1848).
Music: Galilee (Armes) Philip Armes, in Hymns Ancient and Modern, 1875 (🔊 pdf nwc).
One cup of healing oil and wine,
One offering laid upon mercy’s shrine,
Is thrice more grateful, Lord, to Thee,
Than lifted eye or bended knee.
In true and inward faith we trace
The source of every outward grace;
Within the pious heart it plays,
A living fount of joy and praise.
Kind deeds of peace and love betray
Where’er the stream has found its way;
But where these spring not rich and fair,
The stream has never wandered there.