God of Eternity, from Thee

God of eter­ni­ty

from Thee

Did in­fant Time his be­ing draw;

Moments and days and months and years

Revolve by Thine un­varied law.

Silent and slow they glide away;

Steady and strong the cur­rent flows

Lost in eter­ni­ty’s wild sea

The bound­less gulf

from whence it rose.

With it the thought­less sons of men

Before the ra­pid stream are borne

On to that ev­er­last­ing home

Whence not one soul can e’er re­turn.

Yet while the shore on ei­ther side

Presents a gau­dy

flatt’r­ing show

We gaze

in fond am­aze­ment lost

Nor think to what a world we go.

Great source of wis­dom

teach my heart

To know the price of ev­ery hour

That time may bear me on to joys

Beyond its mea­sure and its pow­er.