This Is the Kind of Song I Wish We’d Learned in School!

November 17, 2007 at 3:02 pm | In Church |

It’s not really a hymn for singing at Mass, but you have to love a song called “The Right Must Win”. Page 275, courtesy of Fr. Faber and that guy Tozer.

Oh it is hard to work for God,
To rise and take His part
Upon this battlefield of earth,
And not sometimes lose heart!

He hides Himself so wondrously,
As though there were no God;
He is least seen when all the powers
Of ill are most abroad.

Or He deserts us at the hour
The fight is all but lost,
And seems to leave us to ourselves
Just when we need Him most.

Ill masters good; good seems to change
To ill with greatest ease;
And, worst of all, the good with good
Is at cross purposes.

The church, the sacraments, the faith,
Their up-hill journey take;
Lose here what there they gain, and, if
We lean upon them, break.

It is not so, but so it looks;
And we lose courage then;
And doubts will come if God hath kept
His promises to men.

Ah! God is other than we think;
His ways are far above,
Far beyond reason’s height, and reached
Only by childlike love.

And right is right, since God is God;
And right the day must win;
To doubt would be disloyalty,
To falter would be sin.

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