The Cyber Hymnal ‎#5441

5441. O Thou Who Sealest Up the Past

1. O Thou who sealest up the past,
The days slip from us, and the years
Grow silent with their hopes and fears;
’Tis Thine to keep all things at last.

2. We have not done the things we would,
A blotted page we render back;
And yet, whate’er our work may lack,
Thy work goes on, and Thou art good.

3. Thou movest in the moving years;
Wherever man is, there Thou art
To overrule his feebler part,
And bring a blessing out of tears.

4. Thou opener of the years to be,
Let me not lose, in woe or weal,
The touch of Thy strong hand I feel
Upholding and directing me.

Text Information

• First Line: O Thou who sealest up the past
• Title: O Thou Who Sealest Up the Past
• Author: Samuel V. Cole (1887)
• Meter: LM
• Language: English
• Source: Scipio's Garden and Other Poems, 1901. In The Pilgrim Hymnal, 1904, it is dated to 1887.
• Copyright: Public Domain

Tune Information

• Name: DEVENTER
• Composer: Berthold Tours (1872)
• Meter: LM
• Incipit: 55176 54351 62567
• Key: C Major
• Copyright: Public Domain