Cecil Frances Alexander



Cecil Frances Humphreys Alexander (Early April 1818 – 12 October 1895) was a hymn-writer and poet.

Quotes

 * O, lonely tomb in Moab's land, O, dark Bethpeor's hill, Speak to these curious hearts of ours, And teach them to be still! God hath His mysteries of grace — Ways that we cannot tell; He hides them deep, like the secret sleep,  Of him He loved so well.
 * Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 280.

Hymn: All things bright and beautiful

 * All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful: The Lord God made them all.


 * He gave us eyes to see them, And lips that we might tell How great is God Almighty, Who has made all things well.

Hymn: The Burial of Moses

 * By Nebo’s lonely mountain, On this side Jordan’s wave, In a vale in the land of Moab, There lies a lonely grave.


 * This was the truest warrior That ever buckled sword; This the most gifted poet That ever breathed a word; And never earth’s philosopher Traced with his golden pen On the deathless page truths half so sage As he wrote down for men.