Verse 1

DISPOSER Supreme, And Judge of the earth, Who choosest for Thine the weak and the poor; To frail earthen vessels and things of no worth Entrusting Thy riches, which aye shall endure:

Verse 2

Those vessels soon fail, though full of thy light, And at Thy decree are broken and gone; Then brightly appeareth Thy truth in its might, As through the clouds riven the lightnings have shone.

Verse 3

Like clouds are they borne to do Thy great will, And swift as the winds about the world go; The fire of thy presence their spirits doth fill, They thunder, they lighten, the waters o’erflow.

Verse 4

Then loud be their trump, and stirring their sound, To route us, O Lord, from slumber of sin; The lights Thou hast kindled in darkness around, O may they illumine our spirits within!

Verse 5

All honour and praise, dominion and might, To God Three in One eternally be; Who round us hath shed His marvellous light, And called us from darkness His glory to see!

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