Shall not the children of thy grace
Attempt the theme divine?

5 Not all the feeble notes of time
Can show forth God's high praise;
Nor all the noblest strains sublime
That earth or heav'n can raise.
6 Yet this shall be our best employ,
Thro' life's uncertain days;
And in the realms of boundless joy,
Eternal be thy praise.

64. L. M. WATTS.

Desiring to praise God.

1 Be thou exalted, O my God!

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Above the heav'ns where angels dwell : Thy pow'r on earth be known abroad, And land to land thy wonders tell.. 2 My heart is fix'd; my song shall raise Immortal honours to thy name: Awake, my tongue, to sound his praise, My tongue, the glory of my frame! 3 In thee, my GOD! are all the springs Of boundless love, and grace unknown: All the rich blessings nature brings, Are gifts descending from thy throne. 4 High o'er the earth thy mercy reigns, And reaches to the utmost sky: Thy truth to endless years remains, When lower worlds dissolve and die.

5 Be thou exalted, O my GOD!
Above the heav'ns where angels dwell:
Thy pow'r on earth be known abroad,
And land to land thy wonders tell.

65. C. M. MRS STEELE.
Everlasting praise.

1 MY GOD! my King! to thee I'll raise
My voice, and all my pow'rs:
Unwearied songs of sacred praise
Shall fill the circling hours.

2 Thy name shall dwell upon my tongue,
While suns shall set and rise;
And tune my everlasting song,
When all creation dies.

PART III.

The Works of GOD celebrated.

66. C. M. WATTS.

The creation of the world.
1 LET heav'n arise, let earth appear!
Said the Almighty LORD;

The heav'ns arose, the earth appear'd
At his creating word.

2 Thick darkness brooded o'er the deep:
GOD said, Let there be light!

The light shone forth with smiling ray,
And scatter'd ancient night.

3 He bade the clouds ascend on high;
The clouds ascend, and bear
A wat'ry treasure to the sky,
And float upon the air.

4 The liquid element below
Was gather'd by his hand;
The rolling seas together flow,
And leave the solid land.

5 With herbs, and plants, and fruitful trees,
The new-form'd globe he crown'd,
Ere there was rain to bless the soil,
Or sun to warm the ground.

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6 Then, high in heav'n's resplendent arch,
He plac'd those orbs of light;
He caus'd the sun to rule the day,
The moon to rule the night.

7 Next, from the deep, th' Almighty King
Did vital beings frame;
Fowls of the air of ev'ry wing,
And fish of ev'ry name.

8 To all the various brutal tribes
He gave their wondrous birth;
At once the lion and the worm
Sprang from the teeming earth.
9 Then, chief, o'er all his works below
At last was Adam made;
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His Maker's image bless'd his soul,
And glory crown'd his head.

10 Fair in th' Almighty Maker's eye
The whole creation stood;
He view'd the fabric he had rais'd;
His word pronounc'd it good.

67. C. M.

DODSLEY'S POEMS.

GOD the Creator of mankind.

1 GOD of our lives, whose bounteous care First gave us pow'r to move!

How shall our thankful hearts declare
The wonders of thy love?

2 While void of thought and sense we lay, Dust of our parent earth,

Thy breath inform'd the sleeping clay,
And call'd us into birth.

3 Thine eye beheld in perfect view
The yet unfinish'd plan;

Th' imperfect lines thy pencil drew,
And form'd the future man.

4 0 may this frame, which rising grew
Beneath thy forming hands,

Be studious ever to pursue
Whate'er thy will commands.

68. C. M. GROVE.

GOD the Creator,

10 LORD, how excellent thy name!
How glorious to behold!
Engraven fair on all thy works
In characters of gold!

2 On heav'n's unmeasurable face,"
In lines immensely great;
In small, on ev'ry leaf and flow'r,
CREATOR-GOD is writ.

3 Though reason be not giv'n to all,
Nor voice to thee, O sun!

Their Maker all proclaim, and here
Their language is but one.

4 From land to land, from world to world,

Thy fame is echo'd round;

And ages, as they pass, transmit
The never-dying sound