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1. I sought Him in His temple,
Amid the festive throng
Assembled there to worship
In pray'r and holy song;
But not at any hallowed shrine,
Or pillared dome of man's design:
The God I sought, my Lord divine,
I found him in my heart.
2. I sought him in the silence
Of th'eternal hills,
When dawn's resplendent glory
The vast horizon fills.
But, oh, the rapture and delight,
But, I found him in my heart,
Oft, in the stillness of the night,
I sought him in the starry height.
3. Some day in yonder mansions
Prepared for all his own,
I know I shall behold him
in glory on his throne;
Let heav'n and earth then pass away,
Yet all thro' God's eternal day,
He still, forever and for aye,
shall dwell within my heart!
