10921. Abashed Be All The Boast Of Age!

1 Abashed be all the boast of age!
Be hoary learning dumb!
Expounder of the mystic page,
Behold an infant come!

2 Oh, Wisdom, whose unfading power
Beside th’Eternal stood,
To frame, in nature’s earliest hour,
The land, the sky the flood;

3 Yet didst not Thou disdain awhile
An infant form to wear;
To bless Thy mother with a smile,
And lisp Thy faltered prayer.

4 But, in Thy Father’s own abode,
With Israel’s elders round,
Conversing high with Israel’s God,
Thy chiefest joy was found.

5 So may our youth adore Thy name!
And Savior, deign to bless
With fostering grace the timid flame
Of early holiness.

Text Information
First Line: Abashed be all the boast of age!
Title: Abashed Be All The Boast Of Age!
Author: Reginald Heber, 1783-1826
Meter: CM
Language: English
Source: Published posthumously in Hymns Written and Adapted to the Weekly Church Service of the Year (London: J. Murray, 1827)
Copyright: Public Domain
Notes: Alternate tunes: EAGLEY by James Walch, EVAN by W. H. Havergal
Tune Information
Name: DUNDEE
Meter: CM
Key: E♭ Major
Source: Scottish Psalter, 1615
Copyright: Public Domain



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