That cause can neither be lost nor stayed

Verse 1

That cause can neither be lost nor stayed Which takes the course of what God has made; And is not trusting in walls and towers, But slowly growing from seeds to flowers.

Verse 2

Each noble service that has been wrought Was first conceived as a fruitful thought; Each worthy cause with a future glorious By quietly growing becomes victorious.

Verse 3

There by itself like a tree it shows: That high it reaches as deep it grows And when the storms are its branches shaking, It deeper root in the soil is taking.

Verse 4

Be then no more by a storm dismayed, For by it the full-grown seeds are laid; And though the tree by its might it shatters, What then, if thousands of seeds it scatters?