The Stony Heart - hymn

 A hymn that always moves me, but it took me forever to find online:

The Stony Heart

by Joseph Hart

1 Oh for a glance of heavenly day,

to take this stubborn heart away,

and thaw with beams of love divine

This heart, this frozen heart of mine!

2 The rocks can rend; the earth can quake;

The seas can roar; the mountains shake;

Of feeling all things show some sign:

But this unfeeling heart of mine.

3 To hear the sorrows thou hast felt,

O Lord, an adamant might melt;

But I can read each moving line,

and nothing moves this heart of mine.

4 Thy judgments too, which devils fear,

(Amazing thought!) unmoved I hear;

Goodness and wrath in vain combine,

To stir this stupid heart of mine.

5 Eternal Spirit! mighty God!

Apply to me the Saviour's blood;

'Tis His rich blood, and His alone,

Can move and melt this heart of stone.

Source: The Book of Worship #355