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Not in dumb resignation we lift our hands on high; Not like the nerveless fatalist, content to do and die. Our faith springs, like the eagle's, who soars to meet the sun, And cries exulting unto Thee, "Oh, Lord, Thy will be done." Thy will! It bids the weak be strong; it bids the strong be just; No lips to fawn, no hand to beg, no brow to seek the dust, Wherever man oppresses men beneath the liberal sun, O Lord, be there, Thine arm made bare, Thy righteous will be done.
Not in dumb resignation we lift our hands on high; Not like the nerveless fatalist, content to do and die. Our faith springs, like the eagle's, who soars to meet the sun, And cries exulting unto Thee, "Oh, Lord, Thy will be done." Thy will! It bids the weak be strong; it bids the strong be just; No lips to fawn, no hand to beg, no brow to seek the dust, Wherever man oppresses men beneath the liberal sun, O Lord, be there, Thine arm made bare, Thy righteous will be done.
In print by 1911 AD · modern
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- John Hay
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- In print by 1911 AD · modern
In print by 1911: recorded in The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911). Collection publication is an upper bound for this wording, not its earliest origin, composition date or the author's lifetime.
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- The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911) (1911 AD)
Complete signed selection 73; printed byline: John Hay; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911; printed copyright 1907
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