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43.

2. Thy brightness unto them appears,
While I Thy footsteps trace;

A sound of God comes to my ears,
But they behold Thy face.

3. They sing because Thou art their Sun:
Lord, send a beam on me!

For where heaven is but once begun,
There hallelujahs be.

4. Enlighten with faith's light my heart,
Inflame it with love's fire :

Then shall I sing and bear a part
With that celestial choir.

J. Mason.

I.

All the World Sing. 10.4.6.6.6.6.10.4.

ET all the world in every corner sing

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My God and King!

The heavens are not too high;

His praise may thither fly :

The earth is not too low;

His praises there may grow.
Let all the world in every corner sing
My God and King!

2. Let all the world in every corner sing
My God and King!

The church with psalms must shout;
No door can keep them out:

But, above all, the heart

Must bear the longest part.

Let all the world in every corner sing
My God and King!

George Herbert.

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God Alone.

L.M. 6 lines.

ONE else but Thee, for evermore,

I.

No

One, All, we dread, believe, adore;

Great Earth and Heaven shall have their day,
And worn and old shall pass away,

But Thou remainest, on Thy throne
Eternal, changeless, and alone!

2. None else we praise! in every form,
In peace of calm and power of storm,
In simple flower and mystic star,
In all around and all afar,

In Grandeur, Beauty, Truth, but Thee
None else we hear, none else we see.

3. None else we love! for sweeter grace
That makes anew a ruined race;

The heirs of life, the lords of death,
With earliest voice and latest breath,
When days begin, when days are done,
Bless we the Father for the Son!

4. None else we trust! our flesh may fail,
Our heart may sink when foes assail,
But Thou art Strength to be our stay,
And Glory not to pass away:
None else in life and death have we,
But we have all in all with Thee.

5. Yea, none but Thee all worlds confess,
And those redeemed ones numberless:
None else, from everlasting One,
And evermore beside Thee none:
Of all that is, has been, shall be,
Father of Life, none else but Thee.

S. J. Stone.

45.

God in Creation.

L.M. 6 lines.

I. THOU art, O God, the life and light
Of all this wondrous world we see ;
Its glow by day, its smile by night,

Are but reflections caught from Thee:
Where'er we turn, Thy glories shine,
And all things bright and fair are Thine.
2. When day, with farewell beam, delays
Among the opening clouds of even;
And we can almost think we gaze

Through golden vistas into heaven;
Those hues that make 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;

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And every flower the Summer wreathes
Is born beneath Thy kindling eye:

Where'er we turn, Thy glories shine,
And all things fair and bright are Thine.

The Divine Nearness.

Thomas Moore.

L.M.

I. THERE'S not a bird with lonely nest,
In pathless wood or mountain crest,
Nor meaner thing, which does not share,
O God, in Thy paternal care.

2. Each barren crag, each desert rude,
Holds Thee within its solitude;

And Thou dost bless the wanderer there,
Who makes his solitary prayer.

3. In busy mart and crowded street,
No less than in the still retreat,

Thou, Lord, art near, our souls to bless
With all a parent's tenderness!

4. And every moment still doth bring
Thy blessings on its loaded wing:

Widely they spread through earth and sky,
And last to all eternity!

5. And we, where'er our lot is cast,

While life, and thought, and feeling last,
Through all our years, in every place,
Will bless Thee for Thy boundless grace.

Baptist W. Noel.

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The Universal Presence.

I. FATHER and Friend, Thy light, Thy love,
Beaming through all Thy works we see;

Thy glory fills the heavens above,

And all the earth is full of Thee.

2. Thy voice we hear, Thy presence feel, Whilst Thou, too pure for mortal sight, Involved in clouds invisible,

Reignest the Lord of life and light.

3. We know not in what hallowed part

L.M.

Of the wide heavens Thy throne may be ;
But this we know,--that where Thou art,
Strength, wisdom, goodness, dwell with Thee.

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4. Thy children shall not faint nor fear,
Sustained by this delightful thought,
Since Thou, their God, art everywhere,
They cannot be where Thou art not.

I.

ΤΗ

Sir John Bowring.

The Word of God in Nature.

HERE is a Book who runs may read,
Which heavenly truth imparts;

And all the lore its scholars need,

Pure eyes and Christian hearts.

2. The works of God, above, below,
Within us, and around,

Are pages in that Book, to show
How God Himself is found.

3. The glorious sky, embracing all,
Is like the Maker's love,

Wherewith encompassed, great and small,
In peace and order move.

4. One Name, above all glorious names,
With its ten thousand tongues,
The everlasting sea proclaims,
Echoing angelic songs.

5. The raging fire, the roaring wind,
Thy boundless power display;
But in the gentler breeze we find
Thy Spirit's viewless way.

6. Thou, who hast given me eyes to see
And love this sight so fair,

Give me a heart to find out Thee,

And read Thee everywhere.

C.M.

F. Keble.

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