Creator of the earth and skies

Creator of the earth and skies. Donald Hughes* (1911-1967). First published in six stanzas in Hymns for Church and School (1964), and then, shortened and altered to four stanzas, in the British Methodist supplement, Hymns and Songs (1969). The two missing stanzas were 2 and 5: Like theirs of old, our life is death,   Our light is darkness, till we see The eternal Word made flesh and breath,   The God who walked by Galilee. Stanza 4 was: We have not loved you: far and wide   The wreckage of our hatred spreads; And evils wrought by human pride   Recoil on unrepentant heads. This was followed by the missing stanza 5: For this, our foolish confidence,   Our pride of knowledge, and our sin We...