The Cyber Hymnal ‎#7225

7225. We May Not Climb the Heavenly Steeps

1. We may not climb the heavenly steeps
To bring the Lord Christ down;
In vain we search the lowest deeps,
For Him no depths can drown.

2. But warm, sweet, tender, even yet
A present help is He;
And faith has still its Olivet,
And love its Galilee.

3. The healing of the seamless dress
Is by our beds of pain;
We touch Him in life’s throng and press,
And we are whole again.

4. Through Him the first fond prayers are said
Our lips of childhood frame;
The last low whispers of our dead
Are burdened with His name.

5. 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 Thine!

Text Information

• First Line: We may not climb the heavenly steeps
• Title: We May Not Climb the Heavenly Steeps
• Author: John G. Whittier (1856)
• Meter: CM
• Language: English
• Source: This hymn, and "Immortal Love, Forever Full," come from Whittier's poem"The Master," in The Panorama, and Other Poems, 1856
• Copyright: Public Domain

Tune Information

• Name: SERENITY
• Adapter: Uzziah Christopher Burnap (1856)
• Meter: CM
• Incipit: 33343 33225 23435
• Key: E♭ Major
• Source: WAFT, WAFT, YE WINDS, by Will­iam V. Wall­ace, 1836
• Copyright: Public Domain