Saw you never in the Twilight?
1. Saw you never in the twilight, When the sun has
in heav'n the clear stars shin- ing Through the gloom like sil - ver eyes?
of old the wise men, watch-ing, Saw a little stran - ger star:
2 That all of good the past has had,
Remains to make our own time glad,—
Our common daily life divine,
And every land a Palestine.
3 We lack but open eye and ear
To find the Orient's marvels here,-
The still small voice in Autumn's hush,
Yon maple wood, the burning bush.
4 For still the new transcends the old,
In signs and tokens manifold;
Slaves rise up men; the olive waves
With roots deep set in battle graves.
5 Through the harsh voices of our day
A low, sweet prelude finds its way;
Through clouds of doubt and creeds of fear,
A light is breaking, calm and clear.
6 Henceforth my heart shall sigh no more
For olden time and holier shore;
God's love and blessing, then and there,
Are now, and here, and every where.
I In darker days and nights of storm,
Men knew Thee but to fear thy form;
And in the reddest lightnings saw
Thine arm avenge insulted law.
2 In brighter days, we read thy love
In flow'rs beneath, in stars above;
And, in the track of every storm,
Behold thy beauty's rainbow form.
3 E'en in the reddest lightning's path
We see no vestiges of wrath ;
But always Wisdom,-perfect Love,
From flow'rs below to stars above.
4 See, from on high sweet influence rains
On palace, cottage, mountains, plains;
No hour of wrath shall mortals fear,
For the Almighty Love is here.
1. Oh, could I speak the matchless worth, Oh, could I sound the glories forth
Thro' life's long day, and death's dark night, O gen-tle Jesus, be
1. 'Tis midnight- and on O-live's brow The star is dimmed that lately shone:
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