HYMNS 393 
IV. 
HYMN SUNG AT THE GRADUATING EXERCISES 
OF CAMBRIDGE DIVINITY SCHOOL, HARVARD 
UNIVERSITY, 1847. 
To veil Thy truth by darkening or by hiding : 
To stand irresolute or shrink appalled ; 
To deal vague words of customary chiding, 
Father! to no such work Thy voice has 
called. 
Our eyes are dim, yet can we see the duty. 
Our souls are weak, yet can we shun the 
wrong. 
’T is not in vain that here amid the beauty 
Of Thy deep teachings we have stayed so long. 
Some wounds are turned to pearls ; some limbs 
offending 
We have had strength to seize and rend 
away ; 
Some passionate earthly songs are changed in 
ending 
To choral anthem and triumphant lay. 
To build ‘mid gentle hearts Thy church, the 
peerless ; 
To speak the truth in love, whate’er befall ; 
