5 And on the earth-O praise the Lord;
Ye monstrous deeps, your praise afford;
Thou burning fire, and hail, and snow,
And vapors, your great Author know.
6 Praise him, and in his name rejoice,
Ye sons of men, with heart and voice,
O let them sing his holy worth,
Whose praise is over heaven and earth.
1 YE realms below the skies, Your Maker's praises sing; Let boundless honors rise
To heaven's eternal King:
O bless his name, whose love extends
Salvation to the world's far ends.
2 Give glory to the Lord,
Ye kindreds of the earth;.
His sovereign power record,
And show his wonders forth,
Till heathen tongues his grace proclaim,
And every heart adores his name.
3 Tis he the mountains crowns
With forests waving wide;
"Tis he old ocean bounds,
And heaves her roaring tide ;
He swells the tempests on the main,
Or breathes the zephyr o'er the plain.
4 Still let the waters roar,
As round the earth they roll:
His praise for evermore
They sound from pole to pole.
"Tis nature's wild, unconscious song O'er thousand waves that floats along.
5 His praise, ye worlds on high,
Display with all your spheres,
Amid the darksome sky,
When silent night appears.
O, let his works declare his name
Through all the universal frame.
Nature's Evening Hymn.
1 THE heavenly spheres to thee, O God,
Attune their evening hymn;
All-wise, all-holy! thou art praised
In song of seraphim;
Unnumbered systems, suns, and worlds
Unite to worship thee,
While thy majestic greatness fills
Space, time, eternity.
2 Nature -a temple worthy thee
That beams with light and love,
Whose flowers so sweetly bloom below,
Whose stars rejoice above,
Whose altars are the mountain-cliffs
That rise along the shore,
Whose anthems, the sublime accord
Of storm and ocean roar --
3 Her song of gratitude is sung
By spring's awakening hours;
Her summer offers at thy shrine
Its earliest, loveliest flowers;
Her autumn brings its ripened fruits,
In glorious luxury given;
While winter's silver heights reflect
Thy brightness back to heaven.
4 On all thou smil'stand what is man Before thy presence, God?
A breath but yesterday inspired,
To-morrow but a clod.
That clod shall mingle in the vale;
But kindled, Lord, by thee,
The spirit to thy arms shall spring,
To life, to liberty.
BEING, PERFECTIONS, AND
PROVIDENCE OF GOD.
1 ETERNAL God! almighty Cause
Of earth, and sea, and worlds unknown!
All things are subject to thy laws-
All things depend on thee alone.
2 Thy glorious being singly stands,
Of all within itself possessed;
Controlled by none are thy commands;
Thou from thyself alone art blest.
3 To thee alone ourselves we owe -
To thee alone our homage pay;
All other gods we disavow,
Deny their claims, renounce their
4 In tnee, O Lord, our hope shall rest,
Fountain of peace, and joy, and love!
Thy favor only makes us blest;
Without thee all would nothing prove.
5 Worship to thee alone belongs-
Worship to thee alone we give;
Thine be our hearts, and thine our songs,
And to thy glory we would live.
6 Spread thy great name through heathen lands, Their idol deities dethrone;
Subdue the world to thy commands,
And reign, as thou art, God alone.
The Great First Cause.
1 THE first almighty Cause, Who did all things create, Gave nature all her laws,
Unchangeable as fate,
The source of life, the spring of springs -
His praise all heaven and nature sings.
2 Where'er we cast our eyes,
With raptures we behold,
Below, or in the skies,
Wonders that can't be told:
In nature's book, in every line,
His wisdom and perfections shine.
3 On him all worlds depend;
To him all bend the knee;
But none can comprehend
The boundless Deity.
He fills all space, lives everywhere,
Sustains the whole, makes all his care.
1 GOD is a name my soul adores,
Th' Almighty, the Eternal One!
Nature and grace, with all their powers
Confess the Infinite Unknown.
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