Scripture Verse

Thy will be done. Matthew 6:10

Introduction

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John G. Whittier
(1807–1892)

Words: John G. Whit­ti­er. The lyr­ics come from his po­em My Psalm, in The Pa­no­ra­ma, and Oth­er Po­ems, 1856.

Music: Stra­cath­ro Charles Hut­che­son, 1832 (🔊 pdf nwc).

If you know where to get a good pic­ture of Hut­che­son (head & shoul­ders, at least 200×300 pix­els),

Lyrics

All as God wills, who wise­ly heeds
To give or to with­hold,
And know­eth more of all my needs,
Than all my pray­ers have told.

Enough that bless­ings un­de­served
Have marked my err­ing track;
That, where­so­e’er my feet have swerved,
His chast­en­ing turned me back.

That more and more a pro­vi­dence
Of love is un­der­stood,
Making the springs of time and sense
Sweet with eter­nal good.

That death seems but a co­vered way
Which op­ens in­to light,
Wherein no blind­ed child can stray
Beyond the Fa­ther’s sight.

And so the sha­dows fall apart.
And so the west winds play;
And all the wind­ows of my heart
I open to the day.