Our willful hearts have gone astray;
Our feet have wandered far away;
O God
remember not the day
When we forsook Thy love.
O patient eyes that saw us go!
O careless hearts to grieve Him so!
O feet so swift to leave
so slow
When we came back to Love!
We followed far the wayward will;
Our eyes turned home from every hill;
They found Thee waiting
watching still
When we came back to Love.
We found no home to east or west;
We bore no peace within the breast
Until once more we were at rest
When we came back to Love.
Our Father! Hallowed be the name
That all within Thy house proclaim;
Their prayer and ours at last the same—
Thy will be done
O Love.