O World of God

1O world of God, so vast and strange,
Profound and wonderful and fair;
Beyond the utmost reach of thought,
But not beyond the reach of prayer.

2O world of man where life is lived,
So strangely mingling joy and pain;
So full of evil and of good,
So needful of the cross again.

3O world of time's far-stretching years!
There was a day when time stood still,
A central moment when there rose
A cross upon a lonely hill.