1. Holy Spirit, gracious guest,
hear and grant our heart's request
for that gift supreme and best:
holy heavenly love.

2. Faith that mountains could remove,
tongues of earth or heaven above,
knowledge, all things, empty prove
if I have no love.

3. Though I as a martyr bleed,
give my goods the poor to feed,
all is vain if love I need:
therefore give me love.

4. Love is kind and suffers long,
love is pure and thinks no wrong,
love than death itself more strong:
therefore give us love.

5. Prophecy will fade away,
melting in the light of day;
love will ever with us stay:
therefore give us love.

6. Faith and hope and love we see
joining hand in hand agree
but the greatest of the three,
and the best, is love.