Holy Spirit, Gracious Guest

Holy Spirit, gracious guest,

Hear and grant our heart’s request

For that gift supreme and best:

Holy heav’nly love.

Faith that mountains could remove,

Tongues of earth or heaven above,

Knowledge, all things, empty prove

If I have no love.

Though I as a martyr bleed,

Give my goods the poor to feed,

All is vain if love I need:

Therefore give me love.

Love is kind and suffers long,

Love is pure and thinks no wrong,

Love than death itself more strong:

Therefore give us love.

Prophecy will fade away,

Melting in the light of day;

Love will ever with us stay:

Therefore give us love.

Faith and hope and love we see

Joining hand in hand agree—

But the greatest of the three,

And the best is love.