Chance and change are busy ever;
Man decays, and ages move;
But His mercy waneth never;
God is wisdom, God is love.


Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 272.


Chance and change are busy ever; Man decays, and ages move; But His mercy waneth never; God is wisdom, God is love.

Chance and change are busy ever; Man decays, and ages move; But His mercy waneth never; God is wisdom, God is love.

Chance and change are busy ever; Man decays, and ages move; But His mercy waneth never; God is wisdom, God is love.

Chance and change are busy ever; Man decays, and ages move; But His mercy waneth never; God is wisdom, God is love.