Holy and Reverend Is the Name

Holy and rev­er­end is the name

Of our eter­nal king:

Thrice ho­ly Lord

the an­gels cry

Thrice holy

let us sing!

Heaven’s bright­est lamps with Him com­pared

Are mean and look but dim!

And an­gels fair have too their spots

When once com­pared with Him.

Holy is He in all his works

And truth is His de­light;

But sin­ners and their wick­ed ways

Shall per­ish from His sight.

Holy the tem­ple where of old

Th’Almighty fixed His seat;

Sacred His al­tar with its fire

And ho­ly ev­ery priest.

But tem­ples made with hu­man hands

Our God no more doth prize;

The hum­ble heart His tem­ple is

And pray­er the sac­ri­fice.

The ve­ne­ra­tion of the mind

My soul pay to Thy God;

Lift with the hands a ho­ly heart

To His sub­lime abode.

With sac­red awe pro­nounce His name

Whom words nor thoughts can reach;

A brok­en heart shall please Him more

Than the best forms of speech.

Thou ho­ly God! pre­serve my soul

From all pol­lu­tion free;

The pure in heart are Thy de­light

And they Thy face shall see.