Text: | Thy ways, O Lord! with wise design |
Author: | Ambrose Searle |
Tune: | WELTON |
Composer: | Henri A. C. Malan |
1 Thy ways, O Lord! with wise design,
Are framed upon Thy throne above,
And every dark or bending line,
Meets in the centre of Thy love.
2 With feeble light, and half obscure,
Poor mortals Thine arrangements view;
Not knowing that they all are sure,
And the mysterious just and true.
3 Thy flock, Thine own peculiar care,
Though now they seem to roam uneyed,
Are led and driven only where
They best, and safest may abide.
4 They neither know nor trace the way:
But while they trust Thy guardian eye,
Their feet shall ne'er to ruin stray,
Nor shall the weakest fail or die.
5 My favored soul shall meekly learn
To lay her reason at Thy throne;
Too weak Thy secrets to discern,
I'll trust Thee for my guide alone.
Amen.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Thy ways, O Lord! with wise design |
Author: | Ambrose Searle (1786) |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1899 |
Topic: | Providence; Trust: In Providence |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | WELTON |
Composer: | Henri A. C. Malan |
Meter: | L. M. |