Life of Ages

Verse 1

Life of ages, richly poured, love of God, unspent and free, flowing in the prophet’s word and the people’s liberty —

Verse 2

Never was to chosen race that unstinted tide confined; yours is every time and place, fountain sweet of heart and mind.

Verse 3

Breathing in the thinker’s creed, pulsing in the hero’s blood, nerving simplest thought and deed, freshening time with truth and good,

Verse 4

Consecrating art and song, holy book and pilgrim way, quelling floods of tyrant wrong, widening freedom’s sacred sway.

Verse 5

Life of ages, richly poured, love of God, unspent and free, flow still in the prophet’s word and the people’s liberty!