Eternal Silences
by Frederick William Faber
Amid the eternal silences
God’s endless Word was spoken;
None heard but He who always spake,
And the silence was unbroken.
Oh marvellous! Oh worshipful!
No song or sound is heard,
But everywhere and every hour,
In love, in wisdom, and in power,
The Father speaks His dear Eternal Word!
Faber was one of the three great Tractarian poets, the other two being John Keble and Isaac Williams; unlike Keble and Williams, who remained Anglican, Faber followed Newman over the Tiber.
