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To Veil Thy Truth
Author: Thomas W. Higginson Meter: 11.10.11.10 Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: To veil Thy truth by dark’ning or by hiding Lyrics:
1 To veil Thy truth by dark’ning or by hiding;
To stand irresolute, or shrink appalled;
To deal vague words of customary chiding;
Father! to no such work Thy voice hath called.
2 Our eyes are dim, yet can we seek the duty;
Our ears are dull, yet we can shun the wrong;
’Tis not in vain that here, amid the beauty
Of Thy deep teachings, we have stayed so long.
3 Some wounds have turned to pearls; some limbs offending
We had the strength to seize and rend away;
Some passioned earthly songs have changed, in ending,
To choral anthem and triumphant lay.
4 To build of gentle hearts Thy church, the peerless,
To speak the truth in love, whate’er befalls,
To make our brothers humble, tireless, fearless,
This is the work to which Thy Spirit calls.
5 Some seeds we sow may blossom into flowers,
And those bear fruit, to ripen ’neath Thy sun;
And Thou wilt lead these trembling hearts of ours
On to that peace where and aim and deed grow one.
Used With Tune: CONSOLATION
To Veil Thy Truth
CONSOLATION
Meter: 11.10.11.10 Appears in 415 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Felix Mendelssohn Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 32154 43217 13222 Used With Text: To Veil Thy Truth
CONSOLATION
To veil thy truth by darkening or by hiding
Author: Thomas W. Higginson Hymnal: Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith #506 (1875) Topics: For the Graduation Class
To veil thy truth by darkening or by hiding
To Veil Thy Truth
Author: Thomas W. Higginson Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #16596 Meter: 11.10.11.10 First Line: To veil Thy truth by dark’ning or by hiding Lyrics:
1 To veil Thy truth by dark’ning or by hiding;
To stand irresolute, or shrink appalled;
To deal vague words of customary chiding;
Father! to no such work Thy voice hath called.
2 Our eyes are dim, yet can we seek the duty;
Our ears are dull, yet we can shun the wrong;
’Tis not in vain that here, amid the beauty
Of Thy deep teachings, we have stayed so long.
3 Some wounds have turned to pearls; some limbs offending
We had the strength to seize and rend away;
Some passioned earthly songs have changed, in ending,
To choral anthem and triumphant lay.
4 To build of gentle hearts Thy church, the peerless,
To speak the truth in love, whate’er befalls,
To make our brothers humble, tireless, fearless,
This is the work to which Thy Spirit calls.
5 Some seeds we sow may blossom into flowers,
And those bear fruit, to ripen ’neath Thy sun;
And Thou wilt lead these trembling hearts of ours
On to that peace where and aim and deed grow one.
Languages: English Tune Title: CONSOLATION
To Veil Thy Truth
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
1809 - 1847 Person Name: Felix Mendelssohn Arranger of "CONSOLATION" in The Cyber Hymnal Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (b. Hamburg, Germany, 1809; d. Leipzig, Germany, 1847) was the son of banker Abraham Mendelssohn and the grandson of philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. His Jewish family became Christian and took the Bartholdy name (name of the estate of Mendelssohn's uncle) when baptized into the Lutheran church. The children all received an excellent musical education. Mendelssohn had his first public performance at the age of nine and by the age of sixteen had written several symphonies. Profoundly influenced by J. S. Bach's music, he conducted a performance of the St. Matthew Passion in 1829 (at age 20!) – the first performance since Bach's death, thus reintroducing Bach to the world. Mendelssohn organized the Domchor in Berlin and founded the Leipzig Conservatory of Music in 1843. Traveling widely, he not only became familiar with various styles of music but also became well known himself in countries other than Germany, especially in England. He left a rich treasury of music: organ and piano works, overtures and incidental music, oratorios (including St. Paul or Elijah and choral works, and symphonies. He harmonized a number of hymn tunes himself, but hymnbook editors also arranged some of his other tunes into hymn tunes.
Bert Polman
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Thomas W. Higginson
1823 - 1911 Author of "To Veil Thy Truth" in The Cyber Hymnal Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, M.A., was born at Cambridge, U.S.A., Dec. 22, 1823, and educated at Harvard. From 1847 to 1850 he was Pastor of an Unitarian Church at Newburyport, and from 1852 to 1858 at Worcester. In 1858 he retired from the Ministry, and devoted himself to literature. During the Rebellion he was colonel of the first negro regiment raised in South Carolina. In addition to being for some time a leading contributor to the Atlantic Monthly, he published Outdoor Papers, 1863; Malbone, 1869; and other works. During his residence at the Harvard Divinity School he contributed the following hymns to Longfellow and Johnson's Book of Hymns, 1846:—
1. No human eyes Thy face may see. God known through love.
2. The land our fathers left to us. American Slavery.
3. The past is dark with sin and shame. Hope.
4. To Thine eternal arms, O God. Lent.
In the Book of Hymns these hymns are all marked with an asterisk. They, together with others by Mr. Higginson, are given in Putnam's Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith, 1875. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.]
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology
Thomas W. Higginson
