 | Hymns and verses by Samuel Longfellow |  |
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LAW AND LOVE.
O thou in whom we live and move,
Whose love is law, whose law is love,
Whose present spirit waits to fill
The soul that comes to do thy will!
Whose love is law, whose law is love,
Whose present spirit waits to fill
The soul that comes to do thy will!
Unto our waiting spirits teach
Thy love beyond the power of speech,
And bid us feel with joyful awe
The omnipresence of thy law.
Thy love beyond the power of speech,
And bid us feel with joyful awe
The omnipresence of thy law.
That law doth give to truth and right,
Howe'er despised, a conquering might,
And makes each fondly cherished lie
And boasting wrong to cower and die.
Howe'er despised, a conquering might,
And makes each fondly cherished lie
And boasting wrong to cower and die.
Its patient working doth fulfill
Man's hope and God's all-perfect will,
Nor suffers one true word or thought
Or deed of love to come to naught.
Man's hope and God's all-perfect will,
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Or deed of love to come to naught.
Such faith, O God! our souls sustain
Free, true, and calm, in joy and pain,
That even by our fidelity
Thy kingdom may the nearer be!
Free, true, and calm, in joy and pain,
That even by our fidelity
Thy kingdom may the nearer be!
| Hymns and verses by Samuel Longfellow | |