we turn, thy glo- ries shine, And all things fair and bright are
2. When day, with firewell beam, delays Among the opening clouds of even, And we can almost think we gaze, Through opening vistas, into heavenThose hues that mark the sun's decline, So soft, so radiant, Lord, are Thine.
3. When night, with wings of starry gloom, O'ershadows all the earth and skies, Like some dark, beauteous bird, whose plume
Is sparkling with unnumbered eyes-
That sacred gloom, those fires divine,
So grand, so countless, Lord, are Thine.
4. When youthful Spring around us breathes,
Thy Spirit warms her fragrant sigh;
And every flower that Summer wreathes
Is born beneath Thy kindling eye;
Where'er we turn, Thy glories shine,
And all things fair and bright are Thine.
1. THE Lord my pasture shall prepare,
And feed me with a shepherd's care;
His presence shall my wants supply,
And guard me with a watchful eye:
My noonday walks he shall attend,
And all my midnight hours defend.
2. When in the sultry glebe I faint,
Or on the thirsty mountains pant,
To fertile vales and dewy meads
My weary, wandering steps he leads,
Where peaceful rivers, soft and slow,
Amid the verdant landscape flow.
1. The spacious firma- ment on high, With all the blue, e
And spangled heavens, a thin- ing frame, Their great Origin al pro-claim.
1. The spacious firmament on high,
With all the blue, ethereal sky,
And spangled heavens, a shining frame,
Their great Original proclaim.
2. The wearied sun, from day to day,
Does his Creator's power display,
And publishes to every land
The work of an Almighty hand.
3. Soon as evening shades prevail,
The moon takes up the wondrous tale,
And nightly to the listening earth
Repeats the story of her birth;
4. While all the stars that round her burn,
And all the planets in their turn,
Confirm the tidings as they roll,
And spread the truth from pole to pole.
5. What though in solemn silence all
Move round the dark, terrestrial ball?
What though nor real voice nor sound
Amidst their radiant orbs be found?
6. In reason's ear they all rejoice,
And utter forth a glorious voice;
For ever singing, as they shine-
"The hand that made us is divine."
1. Source of being, source of light, With unfading beauties bright;Thee, when morning greets the
skies, Blushing sweet with humid eyes; Thee, when soft, de clin-ing day Sinks in
purple waves away; Thee, O pa-rent, will I sing, To thy feet my tribute bring.
1. SOURCE of being, source of light,
With unfading beauties bright;
Thee, when morning greets the skies,
Blushing sweet with humid eyes;
Thee, when soft declining day
Sinks in purple waves away;
Thee, O Parent, will I sing,
To Thy feet my tribute bring!
2. Yonder azure vault on high,
Yonder blue, low, liquid sky;
Earth on its firm basis placed,
And with circling waves embraced;
All-creating power confess,
All their mighty Maker bless;
Shaking nature with Thy nod,
Earth and heaven confess their God.
3. Source of light, Thou bid'st the sun
On his burning axles run;
Stars like dust around him fly,
Strew the area of the sky;
Fills the queen of solemn night
From his vase her orb of light;
Lunar luster, thus we see,
Solar virtue shines by Thee.
4. Father, King, whose heavenly face
Shines serene upon our race;
Mindful of Thy guardian care,
Slow to punish, prone to spare;
We Thy majesty adore,
We Thy well-known aid implore;
Not in vain Thy aid we call,
Nothing want, for Thou art all!
1. MIGHTY One, before whose faco Wisdom had her glorious scat, When the orbs that people space Sprang to birth beneath Thy feet!
2. Source of truth, whose rays alono Light the mighty world of mind! God of love, who from Thy throne Kindly watchest all mankind!
3. Shed on those who in Thy name Teach the way of truth and right, Shed that love's undying flame, Shed that wisdom's guiding light.
1. EARTH, with her ten thousand flowers, Air, with all its beams and showers, Ocean's infinite expanse,
Heaven's resplendent countenance;
All around, and all above,
Hath this record-God is love.
2. Sounds among the vales and hills,
In the woods and by the rills,
Of the breeze and of the bird,
By the gentle murmur stirr'd;
All these songs, beneath, above,
Have one burden-God is love.
3. All the hopes and fears that start
From the fountain of the heart;
All the quiet bliss that lies
In our human sympathies;
These are voices from above,
Sweetly whispering-God is love.
1. To Thy pastures fair and large,
Heavenly Shepherd, lead Thy charge,
And my couch, with tenderest care,
Mid the springing grass prepare.
2. When I faint with summer's heat,
Thou shalt guide my weary feet
To the streams that, still and slow,
Through the verdant meadows flow.
3. Safe the dreary vale I tread,
By the shades of death o'erspread,
With Thy rod and staff supplied,
This my guard-and that my guide.
4. Constant to my latest end,
Thou my footsteps shalt attend;
And shalt bid Thy hallowed dome
Yield me an eternal home.
1. LET us with a joyful mind
Praise the Lord, for He is kind,
For His mercies shall endure,
Ever faithful, ever sure.
Let us sound His name abroad,
For of gods He is the God
Who by wisdom did create
Heaven's expanse and all its state;
2. Did the solid earth ordain
How to rise above the main;
Who, by His commanding might,
Filled the new-made world with light;
1. Begin, my soul, th'ex-alt- ed lay; Let each en - raptured thought o-bey, And
praise th' Almighty name; Lo! heaven, and earth, and seas, and skies, In one melodious
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