On its resistless tide

It bears both great and small

With equal, silent, comprehensive love

To that great sea whose calm no storm can move,

God’s grace o’er-arching all.

So may his spirit clear,

Untroubled by the scoff, the sneer, the sting

Of clashing creeds, find heaven a real thing,

And walk with seraphs here.

Thou great Triune! thy sign