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...
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