Alone Lord God, in Whom our trust and peace

Alone Lord God, in Whom our trust and peace,
Our love and our desire, glow bright with hope;
Lift us above this transitory scope
Of earth, these pleasures that begin and cease,
This moon which wanes, these seasons which decrease;
We turn to Thee; as on an eastern slope
Wheat feels the dawn beneath night’s lingering cope,
Bending and stretching sunward ere it sees.
Alone Lord God, we see not yet we know;
By love we dwell with patience and desire,
And loving so and so desiring pray;
Thy Will be done in earth as heaven to-day;
As yesterday it was, tomorrow so;
Love offering love on love’s self-feeding fire.