THE LORD WHOM EARTH AND SEA AND SKY

 A HYMN FOR THE 4TH SUNDAY IN ADVENT

By Fr. Edward Caswall

1 The Lord whom earth and sea and sky

Adore and praise and magnify,

Who o'er their threefold fabric reigns,

The Virgin's spotless womb contains.

 

2 And he whose will is ever done

By moon and seas, by stars and sun,

Is borne upon a maiden's breast,

Whom God's foreseeing grace possessed.

 

3 How blest that Mother, in whose shrine

The very Word of God divine,

The maker of the earth and sky,

Was pleased in fleshly form to lie.

 

4 Blest in the message Gabriel brought,

Blest in the work the Spirit wrought,

Blest evermore, who brought to birth

The long-Desired of all the earth.

 

5 O Jesu, Virgin-born, to thee

Eternal praise and glory be,

Whom with the Father we adore

And Holy Spirit, evermore. Amen.