Worship in Song ‎#264

264. That Cause Can Neither Be Lost nor Stayed

1 That cause can neither be lost nor stayed
Which takes the course of what God has made;
And is not trusting in walls and towers,
But slowly growing from seeds to flowers.

2 Each noble service that has been wrought
Was first conceived as a fruitful thought;
Each worthy cause with a future glorious
By quietly growing becomes victorious.

3 There by itself like a tree it shows:
That high it reaches as deep it grows
And when the storms are its branches shaking,
It deeper root in the soil is taking.

4 Be then no more by a storm dismayed,
For by it the full-grown seeds are laid;
And though the tree by its might it shatters,
What then, if thousands of seeds it scatters?

Text Information

• First Line: That cause can neither be lost nor stayed
• Title: That Cause Can Neither Be Lost nor Stayed
• Author: Kristian Ostergaard
• Translator: J. C. Aaberg
• Meter: 9.9.9.9.
• Publication Date: 1996
• Topic: Commitment; Service
• Source: Danish

Tune Information

• Name: [That cause can neither be lost nor stayed]
• Composer: J. Nellemann
• Key: E♭ Major
• Source: Danish folk tune