The Stony Heart

Oh for a glance of heavenly day,

To take this stubborn heart away,

And thaw with beams of love divine

This heart, this frozen heart of mine!

The rocks can rend; the earth can quake;

The seas can roar; the mountains shake;

Of feeling all things show some sign:

But this unfeeling heart of mine.

To hear the sorrows thou hast felt,

O Lord, an adamant might melt;

But I can read each moving line,

And nothing moves this heart of mine.

Thy judgments too, which devils fear,

(Amazing thought!) unmoved I hear;

Goodness and wrath in vain combine,

To stir this stupid heart of mine.

Eternal Spirit! mighty God!

Apply to me the Saviour's blood;

'Tis His rich blood, and His alone,

Can move and melt this heart of stone.