And Have the Bright Immensities

And Have the Bright Immensities

Text written by Howard C. Robbins (1876-1952)

Sung to FOREST GREEN, a Traditional English melody arranged in 1906 by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

Job 9:7, 9 He speaks to the sun and it does not shine; he seals off the light of the stars.  He is the Maker of the Bear and Orion, the Pleiades and the constellations of the south.

V. 1 And have the bright immensities

Received our risen Lord,

Where light years frame the Pleiades

And point Orion's sword:

Do flaming suns His footsteps trace

Thro' corridors sublime,

The Lord of interstellar space

And conqueror of time?

Matthew 18:20  For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.

V. 2 The heavn' that hides Him from our sight

Knows neither near nor far;

A little candle sheds its light

As surely as a star.

And where His loving people meet

To share the gift divine,

There stands He with unhurrying feet;

There heavn'ly splendors shine.