If, Through Unruffled Seas THATCHER—George Frederick Handel SELVIN—Composer Unknown; German trad:Diehl (arr. Lowell Mason) If, Through Unruffled Seas 1 If, through unruffled seas, Toward heaven we calmly sail, With grateful hearts, O God, to Thee, We’ll own the prosp’ring gale. 2 But should the surges rise, And rest delay to come, Blest be the sorrow—kind the storm, Which drives us nearer home. 3 Teach us, in every state, To make Thy will our own; And when the joys of sense depart, To live