Fair Mount Where Jesus Knelt and Prayed

Fair mount where Je­sus knelt and prayed

What splen­dor crowned thy ho­ly crest

When to His fol­low­ers He re­vealed

The God­head they by faith con­fessed!

Bright as the sun His face they saw

White as the light His gar­ments gleamed;

Transfigured He trans­fig­ured all

The place where­on His ra­di­ance streamed.

With earth so far

and Heav’n so near

What won­der they were fain to stay;

And Mo­ses and Eli­as came

By that great vi­sion rapt as they!

What won­der

while with them He spake

And ov­er­head the cloud ap­peared

And from its glo­ry came the voice

That they who heard it great­ly feared!

The glo­ry waned

the saints of old

Departed by the ways un­known.

And look­ing up

the pros­trate three

Beheld their bless­èd Lord alone.

No more that vi­sion may re­turn

The cloud ap­pear

the voice be heard;

But by that one trans­cend­ent scene

The heart of faith is ev­er stirred.

And though we see Thee not

O Lord

Thy pre­sence faith­ful souls pe­rceive

And bless­èd they

as Thou hast said.

Who have not seen and yet be­lieve.