Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: Lord my weak thought in vain would climb
Topic: God/His Being and Perfections
Writer: Ray Palmer
Composer:
Meter: LM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 26
Page Number: 018, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsLord, my weak thought in vain would climb
To search the starry vault profound:
In vain would wing her flight sublime,
To find creation's outmost bound.
But weaker yet that thought must prove
To search thy great eternal plan, --
Thy sovereign counsels, born of love
Long ages ere the world began.
When my dim reason would demand
Why that, or this, though dost ordain,
By some vast deep I seem to stand,
Whose secrets I musk ask in vain.
When doubts disturb my troubled breast,
And all is dark as night to me,
Here, as on solid rock, I rest;
That so it seemeth good to thee.
Be this my joy, that evermore
Though rulest all things at thy will:
Thy sovereign wisdom I adore,
And calmly, sweetly, trust thee still.