II. Who is This Fair One?歌词由Alessandro Fisher&William Vann&Navarra Quartet&Ralph Vaughan Williams&Isaac Watts演唱,出自专辑《Venables and Vaughan Williams: Portraits of a Mind; On Wenlock Edge; Four Hymns》,下面是《II. Who is This Fair One?》完整版歌词!
II. Who is This Fair One?歌词完整版
WHO IS THIS FAIR ONE?
Who is this fair one in distress,
That travels from the wilderness,
And press’d with sorrows and with sins,
On her beloved Lord she leans?
This is the spouse of Christ our God,
Bought with the treasures of His blood,
And her request and her complaint
Is but the voice of ev’ry saint:
‘O let my name engraven stand
Both on Thy heart and on Thy hand;
Seal me upon Thine arm and wear
That pledge of love for ever there.
Stronger than death Thy love is known
Which floods of wrath could never drown,
And hell and earth in vain combine
To quench a fire so much divine.
But I am jealous of my heart,
Lest it should once from Thee depart;
Then let my name be well impress’d
As a fair signet on Thy breast.
Till Thou hast brought me to Thy home,
Where fears and doubts can never come,
Thy countenance let me often see,
And often shall Thou hear from me:
Come, my beloved, haste away,
Cut short the hours of Thy delay,
Fly like a youthful hart or roe
Over the hills where spices blow’.
Isaac Watts 1674-1748