O God, Creation’s secret Force

O God, Creation’s secret Force. Latin, before 9th century, translated by John Mason Neale* (1818-1866). Neale’s translation of ‘Rerum Deus tenax vigor’* was published in The Hymnal Noted Part I (1851). It was in two stanzas and a doxology, with variant doxologies supplied for the major seasons of the church year. Neale’s text was as follows: O God, Creation’s secret Force, Thyself, unmov’d, all motion’s source, Who from the morn till evening’s ray Throughout all changes guid’st the day: Grant us, when this short life is past, The glorious evening that shall last: That, by a holy death attain’d, Eternal glory may be gain’d. O Father, that we ask be done, Through Jesus Christ, Thine only...