7415. We Have Not Known Thee as We Ought

1. We have not known Thee as we ought,
Nor learned Thy wisdom, grace and power;
The things of earth have filled our thought,
And trifles of the passing hour.
Lord, give us light Thy truth to see,
And make us wise in knowing Thee.

2. We have not feared Thee as we ought,
Nor bowed beneath Thine awful eye,
Nor guarded deed and word and thought,
Remembering that God was nigh.
Lord, give us faith to know Thee near,
And grant the grace of holy fear.

3. We have not loved Thee as we ought,
Nor cared that we are loved by Thee;
Thy presence we have coldly sought,
And feebly longed Thy face to see.
Lord, give a pure and loving heart
To feel and know the love Thou art.

4. We have not served Thee as we ought,
Alas, the duties left undone,
The work with little fervor wrought,
The battles lost or scarcely won!
Lord, give the zeal, and give the might,
For Thee to toil, for Thee to fight.

5. When shall we know Thee as we ought,
And fear and love and serve aright?
When shall we, out of trial brought,
Be perfect in the land of light?
Lord, may we day by day prepare
To see Thy face and serve Thee there.

Text Information
First Line: We have not known Thee as we ought
Title: We Have Not Known Thee as We Ought
Author: Thomas Pollock (1889)
Meter: 88.88.88
Language: English
Source: Supplemental Hymns to Hymns Ancient and Modern, 1889
Copyright: Public Domain
Notes: Alternate tunes: ADORO TE, Joseph Barnby, 1872; ST. PETERSBURG, attributed to Dmitri S. Bortniansky, 1825; WESTBOURNE, Charles E. Stephens, in Church Psalmody, by Charles H. Steggall, 1849
Tune Information
Name: CAREY'S SURREY
Composer: Henry Carey (ca. 1732)
Meter: 88.88.88
Incipit: 54361 71432 33245
Key: F Major
Source: Har­mo­ny from The Eng­lish Hym­nal (Lon­don: Ox­ford Un­i­ver­si­ty Press, 1906), num­ber 491
Copyright: Public Domain



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