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4 Ye deeps, whose roaring billows rise
To join the thunders of the skies,
Praise him who bids you roll;
His praise in softer notes declare,
Each whispering breeze of yielding air,
And breathe it to the soul.

5 Wake, all ye soaring throng, and sing!
Ye cheerful warblers of the spring,
Melodious anthems raise !

To him who shaped your finer mould,
Who tipped your glittering wings with gold,
And tuned your voice to praise.

6 Let man, with nobler reason fraught,
The feeling heart, the glowing thought,
In God's high praise employ !
Spread the Creator's name around,
Till heaven's wide arch repeat the sound,
The general burst of joy!

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Praise to the Lord of Nature.

10 THOU, through all thy works adored;
Great power supreme, almighty Lord!
Author of life whose sovereign sway
Creatures of every tribe obey !
2 To thee, most High, to thee belong
The suppliant prayer the joyful song;
To thee we will attune our voice,
And in thy wondrous works rejoice.
3 Planets, those wandering worlds above,
Guided by thee, incessant move;
Suns, kindled by a ray divine,
In honour of their Maker shine:

4 From thee proceed heaven's varied store,
The changing wind, the fruitful shower,
The flying cloud, the coloured bow,
The moulded hail, the feathered snow :
5 Tempests obey thy mighty will;
Thine awful mandate to fulfil,

The forked lightnings dart around,
And rive the oak, and blast the ground:
6 Yet pleased to bless, kind to supply,
Thy hand supports thy family,
And fosters, with a parent's care,
The tribes of earth, and sea, and air.

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God's Power seen in the Elements.

1 THOU unseen Power, arrayed in might,
The winds bey thy will;

God speaks, and in the heavenly height
The rolling sun stands still.

2 Rebel, ye waves! and o'er the land
With threatening aspect roar;

The Lord uplifts his awful hand,
And chains you to the shore.

3 Howl, winds of night! your force combine; Without his high behest,

Ye shall not in the mountain-pine
Disturb the sparrow's nest.

4 His voice sublime is heard afar,
In distant peals it dies ;

He yokes the whirlwind to his car,
And sweeps the howling skies.

5 Ye nations! bend, in reverence bend;
Ye monarchs! wait his nod,

And bid the choral song ascend

To celebrate the Lord!

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Divine Majesty and Goodness in the Elements. Ps. civ.

1 AWAKE, my soul, to hymns of praise : To God the song of triumph raise; Adorned with majesty divine,

What pomp, what glory, Lord, are thine! 2 Light forms his robe, and round his head The heavens their ample curtain spread; See on the wind's expanded wings The chariot of the King of kings!

3 Around him ranged in awful state,
Dark silent storms attentive wait;
And thunders, ready to fulfil

The mandates of his sovereign will.
4 From earth's low margin to the skies
He bids the dusky vapours rise!
Then from his magazines on high,
Commands the imprisoned winds to fly.

5 The lightning's pallid sheet expands,
And showers descend on furrowed lands!
While down the mountain's channelled side
The torrents roll in swelling pride;

6 Till spent its wild, impetuous force,
And settled in its destined course,
It waters all the fruitful plains,
And life in various forms sustains.

7 Thus clouds, and storms, and fires obey
Thy wise and all-controlling sway;
And while thy terrors round us stand,
We see a Father's bounteous hand.

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Providence kind and bountiful. Ps. cxlv.

1 O GOD! while nature speaks thy praise
With all her numerous tongues;
Thy saints shall tune diviner lays,
And love inspire their songs.

2 Thy sovereign bounty freely gives
Its unexhausted store,

And universal nature lives

On thy sustaining power.

3 Wisdom, and might, and goodness, Lord!
Which through thy works appear,
Should chiefly, grateful man record,
Man, thy distinguished care.

4 From thee, the breath of life he drew,
That breath thy power maintains;
Thy tender mercy, ever new,

His brittle frame sustains.

5 Yet nobler favours claim his praise,
Of reason's light possest;
By revelation's brighter rays
Still more divinely blest.

6 Let then thy praise, delightful theme!
Engross my heart and tongue;
And all creation bless thy name,
In one eternal song.

40. L. M.

Man's Dependence upon God.

1 GREAT Cause of all things! Source of life,
Sovereign of air, of earth, and sea!
All nature owns thy power! but man
A grateful tribute pays to thee.

2 Subject to wants, to thee he looks,
And from thy goodness seeks supplies;
And when opprest with guilt he mourns,
Thy mercy lifts him to the skies.

3 Children, whose little minds, unformed,
Ne'er raised a tender thought to heaven;
And men, whom reason lifts to God,
Though oft by passion downward driven :
Those too who bend with and
age care,
And faint and tremble near the tomb;
Who, sickening at the present scenes,
Sigh for that better state to come:
5 All, great Creator! all are thine;
All feel thy providential care;

And through each varying scene of life
Alike thy constant pity share.

6 And whether grief oppress the heart,
Or whether joy elate the breast;
Or life still keep its varying course,
Or death invite the heart to rest;
7 All are thy messengers, and all
Thy sacred pleasure, Lord, obey:
And all are training man to dwell
Nearer to bliss and nearer thee.

41. L. M.

The Divine Sovereignty acknowledged. Ps. lxxxix.

1 WHAT seraph of celestial birth

To vie with thee, Most High! shall dare!
Or who among the gods of earth

Can with th' eternal ONE compare?

In thee the sovereign right remains
Of earth and heaven; thee, LORD, alone,

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