GREAT or small below, Great or small above; Be we Thine, whom Thou dost know And love: First or last on earth, First or last in Heaven; Only weighted with Thy worth, And shriven. Wise or ignorant, Strong or weak; Amen; Sifted now, cast down, in want: -- But then? Then, -- when sun nor moon, Time nor death, finds place, Seeing in the eternal noon Thy Face: Then, -- when tears and sighing, Changes, sorrows, cease; Living by Thy Life undying In peace: Then, -- when all creation Keeps its jubilee, Crowned amid Thy holy nation; Crowned, discrowned, in adoration Of Thee. |