Hymn: O Lord, and Master of us all

  • Title: O Lord, and Master of us all
  • First Line: O Lord, and Master of us all
  • Hymnal: The Hymnal: as authorized and approved by the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America in the year of our Lord 1916
  • Denomination: (Protestant) Episcopal Church
  • Publisher: Church Pension Fund
  • Publication Date: 1916

Author(s)

  • Author Name: John Greenleaf Whittier
  • Born: 1807
  • Died: 1892
  • Gender: M

Full Text

O Lord, and Master of us all, Whate'er our name or sign, We own thy sway, we hear thy call, We test our lives by thing Thou judgest us; thy purity Doth all our lusts condemn; The love that draws us nearer thee Is hot with wrath to them; Our thoughts lie open to thy sight; And naked to thy glance Our secret sins are in the light Of thy pure countenance. Yet weak and blinded though we be, Thou dost our service own; We bring our varying gifts to thee, And thou rejectest none. To thee our full humanity, Its joys and pains belong; The wrong of man to man on thee Inflicts a deeper wrong. 452 Who hates, hates thee; who loves, becomes Therein to thee allied: All sweet accords of hearts and homes In thee are multiplied. Apart from thee all gain is loss, All labour vainly done; The solemn shadow of the cross Is better than the sun. Amen.

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