{"id":"cw/hymns/misc/092-seraphick-love-altered-from-john-norris","corpus":"cw-hymns-misc","type":"hymn","author":"charles-wesley","title":"092 Seraphick Love Altered From John Norris","title_alt":[],"text_basis":null,"date_composed":"1740","date_precision":"year","date_note":null,"numbering":{"bicentennial":null,"jackson_running":null,"sugden":null},"source_edition":{"editor":null,"title":null,"edition":null,"place":null,"publisher":null,"year":null,"volume":null,"pages":null,"scan_url":null,"scan_page_ids":null},"transcription":{"derived_from":null,"corrected_against_scan":false,"corrector":null,"corrected_on":null},"modernization":"none","license_text":"Public Domain Mark 1.0","license_apparatus":"CC BY 4.0","wikidata":null,"prev":null,"next":null,"part_of":"cw-hymns-misc","editorial_note":null,"source_id":"cw-092-seraphick-love-altered-from-john-norris","passage_ids":["cw-092-seraphick-love-altered-from-john-norris-full"],"word_count":196,"themes_auto":["catholic-spirit","social-holiness","universal-redemption"],"open":true,"closed_reason":null,"legacy_ids":["cw-092-seraphick-love-altered-from-john-norris-full"],"passages":[{"id":"cw-092-seraphick-love-altered-from-john-norris-full","author":"charles-wesley","source_id":"cw-092-seraphick-love-altered-from-john-norris","source_title":"092 Seraphick Love Altered From John Norris","source_type":"hymn","year":1740,"chunk_index":0,"text":"Seraphick Love. Altered from John Norris In part we only know thee here, But wait thy coming from above, And I shall then behold thee near, And I shall all be lost in love! Seraphick Love.72 Alter'd from Mr. Norris. Away, vain world! My heart resign; For I can be no longer thine: A nobler, a diviner guest Has took possession of my breast. He has, and must engross it all; And yet the room is still too small. In vain you tempt my heart to rove; A fairer object claims my love. At last (alas, how late!) I've seen One lovelier than the sons of men: The fairest of ten thousand he, Proportion all, and harmony. All mortal beauty's but a ray Of his bright ever-shining day: All before thee must disappear, Thou only good, thou only fair. To thee my longing soul aspires With holy breathings, warm desires: To thee my panting heart does move! O pierce, fill, melt it with thy love! 72Source: John Norris, A Collection of Miscellanies (Oxford: J. Crosely, 1687), 22-24. First appeared in CPH (1738), 23-24. It was omitted from the 4th edn. (1743) and following of HSP (1739/40).","word_count":196,"source_url":null,"themes":["universal-redemption","social-holiness","catholic-spirit"],"is_full_hymn":true,"created_at":"2026-01-29T18:25:53.994182"}]}