How beautiful, how rich, how fair The portals of Your temple are To spend one day within your house Surpa**es even thousands There sparrow and the swallow nest Around Your altar, finding rest And me in robes I do not own Find grace and affirmation For there a fountain flows. poured on my thirsty soul Just like the Autumn rain, falls on a desert place
You traced Your finger in the clay And my accusers melt away The words You speak when we're alone My heart and will compelling These loaves and fishes that we bring Our simple childlike offering From which a banquet You prepare Within your courts rejoicing