Oh, when His wisdom can mistake,
His might decay, His love forsake,
Then may His children cease to sing, —
"The Lord omnipotent is King!"


Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 274.


Oh, when His wisdom can mistake, His might decay, His love forsake, Then may His children cease to sing, — The Lord omnipotent is King!

Oh, when His wisdom can mistake, His might decay, His love forsake, Then may His children cease to sing, — The Lord omnipotent is King!

Oh, when His wisdom can mistake, His might decay, His love forsake, Then may His children cease to sing, — The Lord omnipotent is King!

Oh, when His wisdom can mistake, His might decay, His love forsake, Then may His children cease to sing, — The Lord omnipotent is King!