As Pants The Hart For Cooling Streams

 

"As the hart pants and longs for the water brooks,
so I pant and long for You, O God."
(Psalm 42:1)

Mountain Stream And Deer

(1865)

William Holbrook Beard

Image courtesy/Fine Art America

As pants the hart for cooling streams,

When heated in the chase,

So longs my soul, O God,

for Thee and Thy refreshing grace.

For Thee, my God, the living God,

My thirsty soul doth pine;

O when shall I behold Thy face

Thou Majesty divine!

For sigh to think of happier days,

When Thou, O Lord, wast nigh;

When every heart was tuned to praise,

And none more blest than I.

Why restless, why cast down, my soul?

Hope still, and Thou shalt sing 

The praise of Him who is Thy God,

Thy Savior and thy King.

"As Pants The Hart For Cooling Streams"
(1696)
From the collaborative work,
"New Version of the Psalms of David
Fitted To The Tunes Used In The Church" by:

Nahum Tate
(1652-1715)
English playwright, poet,
 & British Poet Laureate

Nicholas Brady
(1659-1726)
Irish Anglican clergyman & poet