Hail, holy, heaven-descended Child

Verse 1
Hail holy, heaven-descended Child,
Who God and man hast reconcil’d,
Whom angels bow before!
Whate’er I have of good to give,
To Thee, from whom I first receive,
I thankfully restore.

Verse 2
To Thee my heart I open wide,
The myrrh of passions mortified,
The gold of charity,
The incense sweet of humble prayer,
Jesus, thy prostrate worshipper
I now present to Thee.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘They saw the young child, and fell down and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh.’—[Matt. 2,] v. 11.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/577, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 143.
Publishing: Public Domain