Song of Life

Not in dark­ness nor in mys­te­ry

No depth of heart or mind

Nowhere in heav’n or earth or hell

Can I run and Thou not find;

Transcendent thoughts too deep for me

Surround on ev­ery side.

Thy migh­ty wis­dom

O my God

Moves ocean

wind and tide.

With skill­ful and with hid­den hand

Thou work­est in the womb

And there

in dark and ti­ny space

Makest un­seen life to bloom.

Fashioned fear­ful­ly and won­der­f’ly

Thy know­ledge to dis­play

Thine im­age bear­er grows in night

Which is to Thee as day.

How I love Thy wis­dom and Thy thoughts

Unnumbered as the sands.

I joy that all my earth­ly tri­als

Are writ­ten by Thy hands.

And I trust that strong be­ne­vo­lence

That nev­er leaves my side—

Thy holy

gra­cious pre­sence is

My trea­sure and my guide.