Verse 1
The literal, outward house we love,
Where God vouchsafes to place his name,
Nor will we, Lord, from thence remove,
But jointly there thy praise proclaim,
And daily to thy courts repair,
And seek thee in the house of prayer.

Verse 2
But O! The house of living stones
We never can neglect or leave,
That temple which the world disowns,
To that in life and death we cleave,
Thro’ faith to every member join’d,
The church diffus’d thro’ all mankind.