We May Not Climb the Heavenly Steeps Lyrics John Greenleaf Whittier, 1847
5 verses, meter C.M., public domain, free to print and project.
The words
Verse 1. We may not climb the heavenly steeps
To bring the Lord Christ down;
In vain we search the lowest deeps,
For him no depths can drown.
Verse 2. But warm, sweet, tender, even yet
A present help is he;
And faith has yet its Olivet,
And love its Galilee.
Verse 3. The healing of the seamless dress
Is by our beds of pain;
We touch him in life’s throng and press,
And we are whole again.
Verse 4. Through him the first fond prayers are said
Our lips of childhood frame;
The last low whispers of our dead
Are burdened with his name.
Verse 5. O Lord and Master of us all,
Whate’er our name or sign,
We own thy sway, we hear thy call,
We test our lives by thine!
Words copied from The Otterbein Hymnal (1892). They were published in 1847, so they are in the public domain in the United States, and your church may print them, show them and sing them without a license.
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