How amiable Thy tabernacles, Lord,
How beautiful the vision all divine
Of sanctuary hid with Christ in God!
Look Thou, O Love, on Thine anointed; shine!
Shine out through them to bless all humankind,
In good works let their lives redound to Love,
In wisdom lead them on from strength to strength,
For thus they will Thy perfect beauty prove.
Within Thine altar's courts, O Lord of hosts,
Birds sing in rapturous safety with their young.
There every thought acknowledges Thy rule,
Love's sovereignty, Thy praise on every tongue.
Oh, blessed is the man that trusts in Thee,
In whose heart are the ways of them, Thy laws;
Who has no consciousness of life but good,
Knows naught unlike Love, great and only cause.
Doorkeeper in Thy house means peace and joy,
And better than a thousand spent in sense,
A day in Thy courts, Lord, a single day,
Security in Love's omnipotence!
No good will be withheld from him who walks
In paths of righteous living. Day by day
Will those who trust in Thee Thy mercy prove,
Find fullness! God, our sun and shield alway!
