"Thy will be done"! Not as of old we pray
This prayer of Jesus for ourselves today;
With fuller knowledge of the truth we say,
"Thy will be done!"
In earlier years our foolish blindness deemed
That we, than Thou, far kindlier purpose dreamed;—
A tearful thing to say, and hard, it seemed,
"Thy will be done!"
But now naught lovelier than Thy will we know;
Forth from Thy will to all Thy children go
All good and perfect gifts in ceaseless flow.
Thy will be done!
