Samuel Sebastian Wesley - Engedi - текст песни (слова)

1. 
 
 
 
Lo! now the time accepted peals 
Its tidings of release; 
A time that with salvation heals, 
And to repentant tears reveals 
The mercy seat of peace. 
2. 
 
 
 
Then let us wisely now restrain 
Our food, our drink, our sleep; 
From idle word and jest refrain 
And steadfastly begin again 
A stricter watch to keep. 
3. 
 
 
 
Now Heav'n-taught love will haste to rise 
And seek the cheerless bed, 
Where cold and wan the sufferer lies, 
And Christ Himself to heedful eyes 
Is hungering for bread. 
4. 
 
 
 
'Tis now that zealous charity 
Her goods more largely spends, 
Lays up her treasure in the sky, 
And freely yields, ere death draw nigh, 
To God the wealth He lends. 
5. 
 
 
 
Then consecrate us, Lord, anew, 
And fire our hearts with love; 
That all we think, and all we do, 
Within, without, be pure and true, 
Rekindled from above. 
6. 
 
 
 
Now fuller praise and glory be 
To Thee, the First and Last, 
And make us, blessèd Trinity, 
More faithful soldiers, worthier Thee, 
Through this our chastening fast. 
Lyrics: Unknown au­thor, prob­ab­ly 18th Cen­tu­ry (En temp­us ac­cept­a­bi­le); trans­lat­ed from La­tin to Eng­lish by Ro­bert M. Moor­som in Sup­ple­ment­al Hymns to Hymns An­cient and Mo­dern, 1889.