Full Lyrics
VERSE 1
Lo, in the wilderness a voice
"Make straight the way" is crying:
When men are turning from the light
And hope and love are dying
The Prophet comes to make us clean
There standeth one you have not seen,
Whose voice you are denying.
VERSE 2
God give us grace to hearken now
To those who come to warn us,
Give sight and strength that we may kill
The vices that have torn us,
Lest love professed should disappear
In creeds of hate, contempt and fear,
That crush and overturn us.
VERSE 3
When from the vineyard cruel men
Cast out the heav'nly powers
And Christendom denies its Lord,
The world in ruin cowers,
Now comes, O God, in thy great might
Unchanged, unchanging is Thy right,
Unswayed Thy justice towers.
