Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: Thou Grace divine encircling all
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: Eliza Scudder
Composer:
Meter: CM
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Hymn Number: 1311
Page Number: 783, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsTHOU Grace divine, encircling all,
A soundless, shoreless sea!
Wherein at last, our souls shall fall,
O Love of God most free!
When over dizzy steeps we go,
One soft hand blinds our eyes,
The other leads us safe and slow
O Love of God most wise!
And though we turn us from thy face,
And wander wide and long.
Thou hold'st us still in thine embrace.
O Love of God most kind!
But not alone thy care we claim,
Our way ward steps to win;
We know thee by a dearer name,
O Love of God within!
And filled and quickened by thy breath,
Our souls are strong and free
To rise o'er sin, and fear, and death
O Love of God, to thee!