Gracious Power, the world pervading
Gracious Power, the world pervading. William Johnson Fox* (1786-1864).
First published in Fox’s Hymns and Anthems (1841), in six 3-line stanzas. It is a characteristic Unitarian hymn, addressing God as the ‘Gracious Power’ that gives wisdom, light and love, and is the soul of thought and feeling:
Gracious Power, the world pervading,Blessing all, and none upbraiding, We are met to worship thee.
Not in formal adorations,Nor with servile depredations, But in spirit true and free.
By thy wisdom mind is lighted,By thy love the heart excited, Light and love all flow from thee.
And the soul of thought and feelingIn the voice thy praises pealing, Must thy noblest homage be.
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