Come, Holy Ghost, Creator Blest =============================== m: Based on "Veni Creator Spiritus," ca. 600 w: Rhabanus Maurus, 856 Trans. by Edward Caswall, 1849 Tune: Komm, Gott Schoepfer Meter: L.M. [Verse 1] Come, Holy Ghost, Creator blest, Vouchsafe within our souls to rest; Come with Thy grace and heav'nly aid, And fill the hearts which Thou hast made. [Verse 2] To Thee, the Comforter, we cry, To Thee, the Gift of God Most High, The Fount of life, the Fire of love, The soul's Anointing from above. [Verse 3] The sev'nfold gifts of grace are Thine, O Finger of the Hand Divine; True promise of the Father Thou, Who dost the tongue with speech endow. [Verse 4] Thy light to ev'ry thought impart And shed Thy love in ev'ry heart; The weakness of our mortal state With deathless might invigorate. [Verse 5] Drive far away our wily Foe And Thine abiding peace bestow; If Thou be our protecting Guide, No evil can our steps betide. [Verse 6] Make Thou to us the Father known, Teach us th'eternal Son to own, And Thee, whose name we ever bless, Of both the Spirit, to confess. [Verse 7] Praise we the Father and the Son And Holy Spirit, with them One; And may the Son on us bestow The gifts that from the Spirit flow! Amen.