Verse 1. Like a river glorious is God’s perfect peace,
Over all victorious in its bright increase;
Perfect, yet it floweth fuller every day,—
Perfect, yet it groweth deeper all the way.
Refrain Stayed upon Jehovah hearts are fully blest;
Finding, as He promised, perfect peace and rest.
Verse 2. Hidden in the hollow of His blessèd hand,
Never foe can follow, never traitor stand;
Not a surge of worry, not a shade of care,
Not a blast of hurry moves the spirit there.
Verse 3. Every joy or trial falleth from above,
Traced upon our dial by the Sun of Love.
We may trust Him fully all for us to do:
They who trust Him wholly find Him wholly true.
The refrain is sung after each verse.
Text copied from Sacred Songs and Solos: Twelve Hundred Hymns (1921). The words were published in 1876, which places them in the public domain in the United States, so your church may print them, show them and sing them without a license.
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