Glory to God alone! His name through creation gleams, His hand upholds the universe, the source of all our dreams. Beyond the bounds of endless years His throne forever stands, Beyond the highest heavens spread His infinite commands. He spoke, and chaos heard His voice; the darkness fled away, One word from Him awakened worlds and brought the dawn of day. The angels count the nations born beneath His watchful eye, As centuries rise and fade away beneath the timeless sky. No force can stop His mighty will, no power can oppose; His breath can move the raging storm, the planets He controls. He sends a comet blazing bright across the fields of space, Or lets an ancient sun grow dim and vanish without trace. He plants the fire beneath the sea, He makes the mountains bow, He shakes the depths of hell itself where fallen shadows prowl. The oceans roar, the heavens burn, creation knows His might, Yet still His wisdom guides the stars through everlasting night. O Lord, all things within Your thought are shaped before they rise; Your hand brings warmth into the cold and light into the skies. You guard the widow in her tears, the weak from cruel hands, And create new worlds unseen beyond the distant lands. What is mankind without Your grace? A fragile breath of dust, A fleeting life that fades away, a shadow born to rust. You give us grief, You grant us joy, You number every day, From childhood’s dawn to the graveyard’s silence on our way. Your holy name the chosen sing with golden harps above, The universe repeats Your praise, a hymn of endless love. And when that name resounds through hell’s abandoned night, The darkness curses its own king before eternal light. The angels, saints, and countless stars all join before Your throne; The souls of those who passed away proclaim You as their own. Yet You allow mankind to raise, though weak and passing by, A little song upon the earth beneath Your endless sky. A mortal voice, a fragile flame, a whisper in the night, Still joins the everlasting hymn that fills the realms of light. Glory to God alone! His name through creation gleams, His hand upholds the universe, the source of all our dreams.
