Strong Son of God

Lyrics

Strong Son of God, immortal Love Whom we, that have not seen thy face By faith, and faith alone, embrace Believing where we cannot prove; Thine are these orbs of light and shade; Thou madest Life in man and brute; Thou madest Death; and lo, thy foot Is on the skull which thou hast made Thou wilt not leave us in the dust: Thou madest man, he knows not why He thinks he was not made to die; And thou hast made him: thou art just Thou seemest human and divine The highest, holiest manhood, thou: Our wills are ours, we know not how; Our wills are ours, to make them thine Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be: They are but broken lights of thee And thou, O Lord, art more than they We have but faith: we cannot know; For knowledge is of things we see; And yet we trust it comes from thee A beam in darkness: let it grow Let knowledge grow from more to more But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well May make one music as before But vaster. We are fools and slight; We mock thee when we do not fear: But help thy foolish ones to bear; Help thy vain worlds to bear thy light Forgive what seem'd my sin in me; What seem'd my worth since I began; For merit lives from man to man And not from man, O Lord, to thee Forgive my grief for one removed Thy creature, whom I found so fair I trust he lives in thee, and there I find him worthier to be loved Forgive these wild and wandering cries Confusions of a wasted youth; Forgive them where they fail in truth And in thy wisdom make me wise