The Cyber Hymnal ‎#6513

6513. That Cause Can Never Be Lost Nor Stayed

1. That cause can never 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.

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

3. Thereby 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.

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?

Text Information

• First Line: That cause can never be lost nor stayed
• Title: That Cause Can Never Be Lost Nor Stayed
• Danish Title: Den Sag er aldrig i Verden tabt
• Author: Kristian Ostergaard, 1855-1931
• Translator (from Danish): Jens C. Aaberg, 1877-1970
• Meter: 9.9.10.10
• Language: English
• Copyright: Public Domain

Tune Information

• Name: OSTERGAARD
• Meter: 9.9.10.10
• Incipit: 53217 17255 66432
• Key: E♭ Major
• Source: Danish folk melody
• Copyright: Public Domain