2. A sacred spring, at Thy command,
From Zion's mount, in Canaan's land,
Beside Thy temple, cleaves the ground,
And pours its limpid streams around.
3. The limpid stream, with sudden force,
Swells to a river in its course;
Through desert realms its windings play,
And scatter blessings all the way.
4. Close by its banks, in order fair,
The blooming trees of life appear;
Their blossoms fragrant odors give,
And on their fruit the nations live.
5. Flow, wondrous stream, with glory crowned,
Flow on to earth's remotest bound;
And bear us, on thy gentle wave,
To Him who all thy virtues gave.
1. SINCE first Thy word awaked my heart
Like light new dawning o'er me,
Where'er I turn my eyes Thou art
All light and love before me.
2. Naught else I feel, or hear, or see,
All bonds of earth I sever;
Thee, oh my Lord, and only Thee,
I live for, now, and ever.
3. Like him whose fetters dropped away
When light shone o'er his prison,
My soul, now touch'd by mercy's ray,
Hath from its chains arisen.
4. And shall the soul Thou bid'st be free
Return to bondage? Never!
Thee, oh my God, and only Thee,
I live for, now, and ever.
1. NATURE hath seasons of repose;
Her slumbering clouds and quiet sky; And many a bright-faced stream that flows Onward forever noiselessly.
2. The stormy winds are hushed to rest,
And hang self-poised upon their wings; And, nursed on mother Nature's breast, Sweet flowers lie like sleeping things.
3. The ocean, that in mountains ran, Spreads boundlessly without a wave; And is it only said of man,
His peace is in the gloomy grave?
4. Oh! for the coming of the end,
The last long Sabbath-day of time, When peace from heaven shall descend Like heaven's own light, on every clime.
5. When men in ships far off at sea Shall hear the happy nations raise The song of peace and liberty,
The chant of overflowing praise.
6. Mankind shall be one brotherhood;
One human soul shall fill the earth,
And God shall say, "The world is good,
As in the day I gave it birth."
1. 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 fair and bright are Thine.
2. When day, with farewell beam, delays
Among the opening clouds of even,
And we can almost think we gaze,
Through opening vistas, into heaven-
Those 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.
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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.
3. Though in a bare and rugged way,
Through devious, lonely wilds I stray,
His bounty shall my pains beguile;
The barren wilderness shall smile,
With lively greens and herbage crowned,
And streams shall murmur all around.
4. Though in the paths of death I tread,
With gloomy horrors overspread,
My steadfast heart shall fear no ill,
For Thou, O Lord! art with me still;
Thy friendly crook shall give me aid,
And guide me through the dismal shade.
1. ABOVE-below-where'er I gaze,
Thy guiding finger, Lord, I view,
Traced in the midnight planets' blaze,
Or glistening in the morning dew;
Whate'er is beautiful or fair,
Is but Thine own reflection there.
2. I hear Thee in the stormy wind
That turns the ocean wave to foam;
Nor less Thy wondrous power I find
When summer airs around me roam;
The tempest and the calm declare
Thyself for Thou art every where.
3. I find Thee in the noon of night,
And read Thy name in every star
That drinks in splendor from the light
That flows from mercy's beaming car:
Thy footstool, Lord, each starry gem
Composes-not Thy diadem.
1. THE spacious firmament on high,
With all the blue ethereal sky,
And spangled heavens, a shining frame,
Their great Original proclaim.
2. Th' unwearied 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 the 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
Amid their radiant orbs be found?
6. In reason's ear they all rejoice,
And utter forth a glorious voice;
Forever singing, as they shine-
"The hand that made us is divine."
1. O SOURCE divine, and Life of all,
The Fount of being's wondrous sea!
Thy depth would every heart appall,
That saw not Love supreme in Thee.
2. We shrink before Thy vast abyss,
Where worlds on worlds eternal brood;
We know Thee truly but in this-
That Thou bestowest all our good.
3. And so, 'mid boundless time and space,
O grant us still in Thee to dwell,
And through the ceaceless web to trace
Thy presence working all things well!
4. Nor let Thou life's delightful play
Thy truth's transcendent vision hide;
Nor strength and gladness lead astray
From Thee, our nature's only guide.
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