Sometimes all justice seems a joke

1  Sometimes all justice seems a joke,
    we see love sink and drown,
    as anarchy and violence rule,
    the poor are trodden down.

2   And all is lost, audacious grace,
    seems vain, a hopeless thought;
    until we bring to mind again
    what Jesus lived and taught:

3  The merest spec, a grain, of faith
    is all we ever need,
    for faith cannot be quantified
    and hope can still succeed.

Verse 4 follows

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Tune: GERONTIUS (HP 231i), ST COLUMBA (HP 469ii)

Andrew Pratt (born 1948)

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