Esther commented somewhere on my blog asking about an alternate melody for this hymn, this is actually the melody I know it by....
- Hast thou heard Him, seen Him, known Him?
Is not thine a captured heart?
Chief among ten thousand own Him;
Joyful choose the better part. - Captivated by His beauty,
Worthy tribute haste to bring;
Let His peerless worth constrain thee,
Crown Him now unrivaled King. - Idols once they won thee, charmed thee,
Lovely things of time and sense;
Gilded thus does sin disarm thee,
Honeyed lest thou turn thee thence. - What has stripped the seeming beauty
From the idols of the earth?
Not a sense of right or duty,
But the sight of peerless worth. - Not the crushing of those idols,
With its bitter void and smart;
But the beaming of His beauty,
The unveiling of His heart. - Who extinguishes their taper
Till they hail the rising sun?
Who discards the garb of winter
Till the summer has begun? - 'Tis that look that melted Peter,
'Tis that face that Stephen saw,
'Tis that heart that wept with Mary,
Can alone from idols draw: - Draw and win and fill completely,
Till the cup o'erflow the brim;
What have we to do with idols
Who have companied with Him?
Esther, here is the link to hymnal.net where I found this-unfortunately I could not find the sheet music, though I do think there is a place for it...I will have to ask around and get back to you.
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