O Light, from Age to Age the Same

O Light

from age to age the same

O ev­er liv­ing Word

Here have we felt Thy kind­ling flame

Thy voice with­in have heard.

Here ho­ly thought and hymn and pray­er

Have wing­ed the Spir­it’s pow­ers

And made these walls di­vine­ly fair

Thy temp­le

Lord

and ours.

O not in vain their toil who wrought

To build faith’s freer shrine;

Nor theirs whose stead­fast love and thought

Have watched the fire di­vine.

Burn

holy fire

and shine more wide!

While na­tions rise and fall

Faith

hope

and char­ity ab­ide

The heart and soul of all.