O Lord and Master of us all
O Lord and Master of us all. John Greenleaf Whittier* (1807-1892).
From Whittier’s poem ‘Our Master’ (see ‘Immortal Love, for ever full’*). The selection of verses that normally forms this hymn begins with stanza 16, which in the poem begins ‘Our Lord...’. The subsequent stanzas of the poem contain the following that have been used in selections:
Thou judgest us: Thy purity (17)
Our thoughts lie open to Thy sight (18)
Yet, weak and blinded though we be (20)
We faintly hear, we dimly see (26)
Apart from Thee all gain is loss (30)
Alone, O love ineffable (31)
Our Friend, our Brother, and our Lord (34)
These stanzas are from the second part of the poem. As with ‘Immortal Love, for ever...
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