Whate'er the gift may be:

All that we have is thine alone,

A trust, O Lord! from thee.

2 O, hearts are bruised and dead,

And homes are bare and cold,

And lambs, for whom the Shepherd bled,

Are straying from the fold.

3 To comfort and to bless,

To find a balm for woe,

To tend the lone and fatherless