1 Life of ages, richly poured,
love of God, unspent and free,
flowing in the prophet’s word
and the people’s liberty —

2 Never was to chosen race
that unstinted tide confined;
yours is every time and place,
fountain sweet of heart and mind.

3 Breathing in the thinker’s creed,
pulsing in the hero’s blood,
nerving simplest thought and deed,
freshening time with truth and good,

4 Consecrating art and song,
holy book and pilgrim way,
quelling floods of tyrant wrong,
widening freedom’s sacred sway.

5 Life of ages, richly poured,
love of God, unspent and free,
flow still in the prophet’s word
and the people’s liberty!