One God ! One Majesty! There is no God but Thee! Unbounded, unextended Unity!
Awful in unity, O God! we worship Thee, More simply one, because supremely Three!
Dread, unbeginning One! Single, yet not alone, Creation hath not set Thee on a higher throne
Unfathomable Sea! All life is out of Thee, And Thy life is Thy blissful Unity.
All things that from Thee run, All works that Thou hast done, Thou didst in honor of Thy being One.
And by Thy being One, Ever by that alone, Couldst Thou do, and doest, what Thou hast done.
We from Thy oneness come, Beyond it cannot roam, And in Thy oneness find our one eternal home.
Blest be Thy Unity ! All joys are one to me,-- The joy that there can be no other God than Thee!
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Frederick William Faber, British hymn writer and theologian, was born at Calverley, Yorkshire, where his grandfather, Thomas Faber, was vicar. Faber attended the grammar school of Bishop Auckland for a short time, but a large portion of his boyhood was spent in Westmorland. He afterwards went to Harrow and Balliol College, Oxford. In 1835, he obtained a scholarship at University College. In 1836, he won the Newdigate Prize for a poem on "The Knights of St John," which elicited special praise from John Keble. Among his college friends were Dean Stanley and Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne.
Among his best-known hymns are: "Souls of Men, Why Will Ye Scatter", "Faith of Our Fathers", and "My God, How Wonderful Thou Art".