UNCHANGEABLE, UNCHANGING THOU.

Otago Witness, Issue 1950, 4 April 1889, Page 29

UNCHANGEABLE, UNCHANGING THOU.

The brightest gem this world contains 1 Will turn to vile and worthless clay, The fairest flower that stars the plain Will pale its beauty in decay ; The mighty monarch of the wood Its lofty head will lowly bow, Earth's glories all shall fade away, Unchangeable, Unchanging Thou. The stars that shed their twinkling ligbt Will from the vault of azure fall, The sun his radiant beam* shall hide, And gloom and darkness cover all ; The heavens themselves shall pass away, The crown be reft from Nature's brow ; Mount, stream, and sea shall cease to be, Unchangeable, Unchanging Thou.' And man— his empires risg and fall : Where cities stood the desert reigns ; His gods are sepulchred in dnst, And silence fills his sacred fanes. Change is the note that time hath riihg. From the Creation's dawn till now, But 'mid the wreck one rock remains, ' Unchangeable, Unchanging Thou. When doubts and fears obscure the soul, When peaca and joy away have fled, When thought, libe ocean waves, is tossed, When hope is dark, and faith is dead, One star is there— it shines on high— ' And gems the night's refulgent brow ; One star— the word—the truth sublime, Unchangeable, Unchanging Thou. -John GK Smith. Invercarglll, March 28.