1 HEAR, Holy Spirit, hear, My inward Comforter! Loosed by Thee, my stammering tongue First essays to praise Thee now; This the new, the joyful song: Hear it in Thy temple Thou! 2 Long o’er my formless soul The dreary waves did roll; Void I lay, and sunk in night: Thou, the overshadowing Dove, Call’dst the chaos into light, Bad’st me be, and live, and love. 3 Thee I exult to feel, Thou in my heart dost dwell: There Thou bear’st Thy witness true, Shedd’st the love of God abroad;