Hast thou heard Him

1. Hast thou heard Him, seen Him, known Him?
   Is not thine a captured heart?
   Chief among ten thousand own Him;
   Joyful choose the better part.
   
   
• Captivated by His beauty,
  Worthy tribute haste to bring;
  Let His peerless worth constrain thee,
  Crown Him now unrivaled King.
  
  
2. Idols once they won thee, charmed thee,
   Lovely things of time and sense;
   Gilded thus does sin disarm thee,
   Honeyed lest thou turn thee thence.
   
   
3. What has stripped the seeming beauty
   From the idols of the earth?
   Not a sense of right or duty,
   But the sight of peerless worth.
   
   
4. Not the crushing of those idols,
   With its bitter void and smart;
   But the beaming of His beauty,
   The unveiling of His heart.
   
   
5. Who extinguishes their taper
   Till they hail the rising sun?
   Who discards the garb of winter
   Till the summer has begun?
   
   
6. 'Tis the look that melted Peter,
   'Tis the face that Stephen saw,
   'Tis the heart that wept with Mary,
   Can alone from idols draw:
   
   
7. Draw and win and fill completely,
   Till the cup o'erflow the brim;
   What have we to do with idols
   Who have companied with Him?

This is sung to the tune 'Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus. I grew up singing this hymn from childhood. It's much more meaningful now.