Christ My Song - 853

Upon the Rock I plant my foot! - The eternal Rock
(Horatius Bonar/Johannes Thomas Rüegg)

The eternal Rock.

1. Upon the Rock I plant my foot!
  Amid time's shifting, sinking sands,
amid the hurricane of life,
  fixed and immovable it stands. (PDF - Midi)

2. All else is moving; it alone
  shakes not, nor yields, nor crumbles down:
time and its tempests it defies;
  changes to it are things unknown.

3. It grows not old, it turns not grey;
  it boldly baffles every shock:
repelling earth, defying hell,
  it standeth firm, the eternal Rock.

4. The earthquakes of the ages strike
  against it with increasing rage;
it trembles not, nor shrinks in fear
  from the dark warfare of the age.

5. It lifts its head above the clouds,
  it braves the wrath and scorn of foes;
deep as the everlasting hills,
  it strikes its roots in still repose.

6. Rock of eternity, amid
  all changes here, I rest on thee!
Rock of the ages that are past,
  Rock of the ages yet to be.

Horatius Bonar, The Song of the New Creation, 1872, 135-136.

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