Additional Hymns: Adopted by the General Synod of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church in North America, at Their Session, June, 1846, and Authorized to Be Used in the Churches Under Their Care

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Additional Hymns.

Introductory.

I. - H. M. Praise. [New Arrangement 1.

1 Oh Zion, tune thy voice,
And lift thy hands on high;
Tell all the world thy joys,
And shout salvation nigh:
Cheerful in God, arise and shine,
While rays divine stream all abroad.

2 He gilds thy mourning face
With beams that cannot fade;
His all resplendent grace
He pours around thy head;
The nations round thy form shall view,
With lustre new divinely crown'd.

3 In honour to his name,
Reflect that sacred light,
And loud that grace proclaim,
Which makes thy darkness bright:
Pursue his praise, till sov'reign love,
In worlds above, thy glory raise.

4 There, on his holy hill,
A brighter sun shall rise,
And with his radiance fill
Those fairor, purer skies:

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