Verse 1
God in mortal flesh reveal’d,
Explain the mystery,
Shew it still on man fulfill’d,
Be manifest in me;
Thou who didst on earth appear,
By faith conceiv’d thyself impart,
Pitch thy tabernacle here
In my believing heart.

Verse 2
Thou, who didst so greatly stoop
To a poor virgin’s womb,
Here thy mean abode take up,
To me, my Saviour come;
Come, and Satan’s works destroy,
And let me all thy Godhead prove,
Fill’d with peace, and heavenly joy,
And pure eternal love.

Verse 3
Then my soul with strange delight
Shall comprehend and feel
All the length, and breadth, and height
Of love unspeakable;
Then I shall the secret know,
Which angels would search out in vain,
God was man, and serv’d below,
That man with God might reign.