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| GATHER us in, Thou Love that fillest all, | |
| Gather our rival faiths within Thy fold, | |
| Rend each man’s temple’s veil and bid it fall, | |
| That we may know that Thou hast been of old; | |
| Gather us in. | 5 |
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| Gather us in: we worship only Thee; | |
| In varied names we stretch a common hand; | |
| In diverse forms a common soul we see; | |
| In many ships we seek one spirit-land; | |
| Gather us in. | 10 |
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| Each sees one colour of Thy rainbow-light, | |
| Each looks upon one tint and calls it heaven; | |
| Thou art the fulness of our partial sight; | |
| We are not perfect till we find the seven; | |
| Gather us in. | 15 |
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| Thine is the mystic lite great India craves, | |
| Thine is the Parsee’s sin-destroying beam, | |
| Thine is the Buddhist’s rest from tossing waves, | |
| Thine is the empire of vast China’s dream; | |
| Gather us in. | 20 |
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| Thine is the Roman’s strength without his pride, | |
| Thine is the Greek’s glad world without its graves, | |
| Thine is Judæa’s law with love beside, | |
| The truth that censures and the grace that saves; | |
| Gather us in. | 25 |
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| Some seek a Father in the heavens above, | |
| Some ask a human image to adore, | |
| Some crave a spirit vast as life and love: | |
| Within Thy mansions we have all and more; | |
| Gather us in. | 30 |
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