God’s free mercy streameth
Over
all the world,
And
His banner gleameth,
By
His church unfurled;
Broad
and deep and glorious,
As
the heaven above,
Shine
in might victorious
His
eternal love.
2
Summer
suns are glowing
Over
land and sea;
Happy
light is flowing,
Bountiful
and free;
Everything
rejoices
In
the mellow rays;
Earth’s
ten thousand voices
Swell
the psalm of praise.
3
Lord,
upon our blindness
Thy
pure radiance pour;
For
Thy loving kindness
We
would love Thee more;
And
when clouds are drifting
Dark
across the sky,
Then,
the veil uplifting,
Father,
be Thou nigh.
4
We
will never doubt Thee,
Tho’
Thou veil Thy light;
Life
is dark without Thee,
Death
with Thee is bright.
Light
of light, shine o’er us
On
our pilgrim way,
Go
Thou still before us
To
the endless day.