O Thou Whose Spirit Witness Bears

O Thou whose Spir­it wit­ness bears

Within our spir­its free

That we Thy child­ren are and heirs

Of Thine eter­ni­ty.

Here may this sim­ple faith sub­lime

O’er-arch us like the sky;

Secure be­low the drift of time

Its firm foun­da­tions lie.

Our thought o’er­flows each writ­ten scroll

Our creeds arise and fall;

The life of God with­in the soul

Lives and out­lasts them all.