Hymn: Our Father, through the coming year
- Title:
- First Line: Our Father, through the coming year
- Hymnal: A Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion (15th ed.)
- Denomination: Unitarians and Universalists
- Publisher: Ticknor and Fields
- Publication Date: 1866
Author(s)
- Author Name: William Gaskell
- Born: 1805
- Died: 1884
- Gender: M
Full Text
Our Father! through the coming year We know not what shall be, But we would leave without a fear Its ordering all to Thee. It may be we shall toil in vain For what the world holds fair, And all its good we thought to gain Deceive, and prove but care. It may be it shall darkly blend Our love with anxious fears, And snatch away the valued friend, The tried of many years. It may be it shall bring us days And nights of lingering pain, And bid us take our farewell gaze Of these loved haunts of men. But calmly, Lord, on Thee we rest; No fears our trust shall move; Thou knowest what for each is best, And Thou art perfect love.