Songs

Praise to the Holiest in the height

7
				C.M.

1	Praise to the  Holiest in the height,
	And in the depth be praise:
	In all His words most wonderful;
	Most sure in all His ways

2	O loving wisdom of our God,
	When all was sin and shame,
	A second Adam to the fight
	And to the rescue came

3	O wisest love! that flesh and blood
	Which did in Adam fail,
	Should strive afresh against the foe,
	Should strive and should prevail

4	And that a higher gift than grace
	Should flesh and blood refine,
	God's presence, and His very self
	And essence all--devine

5	O generous love! that He, who smote
	In Man for man the foe,
	The double agony in Man
	For man should undergo

6	And in the garden secretly,
	And on the Cross on high,
	Should teach His brethren, and inspire
	To suffer and to die

7	Praise to the Holiest in the height,
	And in the depth be praise;
	In all His words most wonderful;
	Most sure in all His ways

					J.H. newman