The Cyber Hymnal ‎#16975

16975. God of Eternity, From Thee

1. God of eter­ni­ty, from Thee
Did in­fant Time his be­ing draw;
Moments and days and months and years
Revolve by Thine un­varied law.

2. Silent and slow they glide away;
Steady and strong the cur­rent flows,
Lost in eter­ni­ty’s wild sea,
The bound­less gulf, from whence it rose.

3. With it the thought­less sons of men
Before the ra­pid stream are borne
On to that ev­er­last­ing home,
Whence not one soul can e’er re­turn.

4. Yet while the shore on ei­ther side
Presents a gau­dy, flatt’r­ing show,
We gaze, in fond am­aze­ment lost,
Nor think to what a world we go.

Great source of wis­dom, teach my heart
To know the price of ev­ery hour
That time may bear me on to joys
Beyond its mea­sure and its pow­er.

Text Information

• First Line: God of eternity, from Thee
• Title: God of Eternity, From Thee
• Author: Philip Doddridge
• Meter: LM
• Language: English
• Source: Pub­lished post­hu­mous­ly in Hymns Found­ed on Va­ri­ous Texts in the Ho­ly Scrip­tures, by Job Or­ton (Shrop­shire, Eng­land: Jo­shua Ed­does & John Cot­ton, 1755), num­ber 292. "The wis­dom of re­deem­ing time."

Tune Information

• Name: MOZART
• Composer: Wolfgang A. Mozart
• Meter: LM
• Key: G Major or modal
• Source: Arranged from Wolfgang A. Mozart