Our God is light: and though we go

1 Our God is light: and though we go
Across a trackless wild,
Our Jesus' footsteps ever show
The path for ev'ry child.

2 At ev'ry step afresh we prove
How sure our heavenly Guide,--
The faithful and forbearing love
That never turns aside.

3 Thou weariest not, most gracious Lord,
Though we may weary grow;
In season, the sustaining word
Thou giv'st our hearts to know.

4 Death's bitter waters met our thirst,
Thy cross has made them sweet;
Then on our gladdened vision burst
God's shady, cool retreat.

5 Thro' scenes of strife, by graves of lust,
Our desert path has been;
But here, O Lord, we've learned to trust
And love Thee, though unseen.

6 The manna and the springing well
Suffice for ev'ry need;
And Eshcol's grapes the story tell
Of where Thy path doth lead.

Source: A Few Hymns and Some Spiritual Songs. Selected 1856, for the Little Flock. Revised, 1881 #275