Come, Good Christians, Join Our Song Lyrics

1. Come, good Christians, join our song,
As we pace a happy throng,
As we pace a happy throng,
Thro' the garden walks so wide,
On Mount Carmel's sunny side,
Garden rich with flowers rare,
Scenting all the summer air.

2. Gather, Christian, blossoms gay,
Gather fruit this gladsome day;
Gather fruit this gladsome day;
All bright flowers, my gentle bride,
On Mount Carmel's sunny side,
Serve for thine adorning well,
Mystic lessons while they tell.

3. Gather first the sunflower bright,
Turning ever to the light;
Turning ever to the light;
Stock and wall-flower sweet, that fling
On the breeze their offering;
Gather lilies, stainless, pure,
Everlastings that endure.

4. Cull the woodbine that entwines,
Tulips gay in flaming lines,
Tulips gay in flaming lines,
Pansies blue, and primrose pale;
Gather violets without fail,
That beneath the leafage hide,
On Mount Carmel's sunny side.

5. Carmel's garden, oh, how fair!
Countless flowers are blooming there,
Countless flowers are blooming there,
Flowers of varied odour blow,
Flowers of every lustre glow;
Lo! the garden we have trod
Surely is the Church of God.

6. Here the doctors stand and gaze,
Clear-eyed on the solar blaze;
Clear-eyed on the solar blaze;
Here the hermits from their rock
Waft their virtues like the stock;
Virgins are the lily white,
Martyrs' wounds the tulip bright.

7. Humble souls are violets blue,
Wet with penitential dew;
Wet with penitential dew;
Meekness like a primrose lies,
Constancy nor fades nor dies;
Broken hearts by heaven dyed,
Pansies peaceful, satisfied.

8. Clinging spirits, that entwine
Round the cross, are eglantine;
Round the cross, are eglantine;
Here, from out monastic cell,
Shakes the Canterbury bell;
Prelates here, a gallant flock,
Blaze as stately hollyhock.

9. There's a fountain, limpid, clean,
Waters Carmel's garden green,
Waters Carmel's garden green,
Never failing, year by year,
Opened by the soldier's spear.
Once he smoke the living rock,
Forth it spouted at the shock.