Words: , 1878; ap­peared in The Thought of God, first ser­ies, 1885.

Music: Wood­oaks, , in The Prim­i­tive Meth­od­ist Hym­nal Sup­ple­ment with Tunes, ed­ited by (Lon­don: Prim­i­tive Meth­od­ist Pub­lish­ing House, 1912), num­ber 51 .


O Name, all other names above,
What art Thou not to me?
Now I have learned to trust Thy love
And cast my care on Thee.

What is our being but a cry,
A restless longing still,
Which Thou alone canst satisfy,
Alone Thy fullness fill?

Thrice blessèd be the holy souls
That lead the way to Thee,
That burn upon the martyr-rolls
And lists of prophecy.

And sweet it is to tread the ground
O’er which their faith hath trod;
But sweeter far, when Thou art found,
The soul’s own sense of God.

The thought of Thee all sorrow calms,
Our anxious burdens fall;
His crosses turn to triumph-palms
Who finds in God his all.