Ye clouds that onward sweep,
Ye winds on pinions light,
Ye thunders echoing loud and deep,
Ye lightnings wild and bright,
In sweet consent unite

Your Alleluia !

Ye floods and ocean billows,
Ye storms and winter snow,
Ye days of cloudless beauty,
Hoar frost and summer glow,
Ye groves that wave in spring,

And glorious forests, sing: Alleluia First let the birds, with painted plumage gay Exalt their great Creator's praise, and say,

Al

Then let the beasts of earth, with varying st Join in creation's hymn, and cry again,

A

Here let the mountains thunder forth sonord

There let the valleys sing, in gentler chorus,

A

A

Thou jubilant abyss of ocean cry,

A

Ye tracts of earth and continents, reply,

A

To God, Who all creation made, The frequent hymn be duly paid: Alle This is the strain, the eternal strain, the Almighty loves :

Allelui

This is the song, the heavenly song, that

Allelui

the King approves : Wherefore we sing, both heart and voice awa

A

A

And children's voices echo, answer making,

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Now from all men be outpoured
Alleluia to the Lord;

With Alleluia evermore

The Son and Spirit we adore.
Praise be done to the Three in One,

Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Amen.

10, 10, 8.

Latin Hymn, tr. J. ELLERTON. And I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying Alleluia.-Rev. xix. i.

ING Alleluia forth in duteous praise,

SING

O citizens of heaven, and sweetly raise

An endless Alleluia.

Ye next, who stand before th' Eternal Light,
In hymning choirs re-echo to the height,

An endless Alleluia.

The Holy City shall take up your strain,
And, with glad songs resounding, wake again

An endless Alleluia.

In blissful antiphons ye thus rejoice,
To render to the Lord, with thankful voice,

An endless Alleluia.

Ye who have gained at length your palms in bliss, Victorious ones, your chant shall still be this,

An endless Alleluia.

There, in one grand acclaim, for ever ring
The strains which tell the honour of your King,
An endless Alleluia.

This is the rest for weary ones brought back,
This is the food and drink which none shall lack,
An endless Alleluia.

While Thee, by Whom were all things made, we
For ever, and tell out in sweetest lays,

[praise

An endless Alleluia ! Almighty Christ, to Thee our voices sing Glory for evermore; to Thee we bring An endless Alleluia.

Amen.

THE HOLY TRINITY.

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II, 12, 12, 10.

Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty.
Revelation iv. 8.

HE

OLY, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty
Gratefully adoring, our songs shall

Thee.

Holy, holy, holy, Merciful and Mighty,
God in Three Persons, Blessed Trinity!

2 Holy, holy, holy, all the saints adore Thee, Casting down their golden crowns aroun glassy sea;

Cherubim and seraphim falling down before Who wert, and art, and evermore shalt be.

3 Holy, holy, holy, though the darkness hide Though the eye of sinful man Thy glory

not see;

Only Thou art holy, there is none beside T Perfect in power, in love and purity.

4 Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty! All Thy works shall praise Thy name, in and sky and sea ;

Holy, holy, holy, Merciful and Mighty,
God in Three Persons, Blessed Trinity!

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Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of Hosts.—Isa. vi. 3.

HOLY, holy, holy, Lord

God of Hosts, when heaven and earth,

Out of darkness, at Thy word,

Issued into glorious birth,

All Thy works before Thee stood,
And Thine eye beheld them good;
While they sang, with sweet accord,
Holy, holy, holy Lord.

2 Holy, holy, holy Three,
One Jehovah evermore,
Father, Son, and Spirit, we,

Dust and ashes, would adore;
Lightly by the world esteemed,
From that world by Thee redeemed,
Sing we here, with glad accord,
Holy, holy, holy Lord.

3 Holy, holy, holy, all

Heavens' triumphant choirs shall sing; When the ransomed nations fall

At the footstool of their King,

Then shall saints and seraphim,
Harps and voices swell one hymn,
Round the throne with full accord-
Holy, holy, holy Lord.

8,7. Double.

T. H. GILL.

64 who shall not fear Thee, O Lord? for Thou

I

only art holy.-Revelation xv. 4. ATHER, glorious with all splendour, But with holiness most bright!

FA

Son, in whom, all sweet and tender,

Dwelt on earth that blessed light!
Spirit, through whose grace the glory
Into sinful souls is poured!
With Thine angels we adore Thee,
Holy, holy, holy Lord!

2 Holy One, who sin abhorrest, Awful sin-consuming flame! Holy One, our sin who borest,

Through our sin whose passion came Holy One, who takest sorrow

When we touch the thing abhorred ! Dare our lips this dread strain borrow, Holy, holy, holy Lord?

3 In this strain what fulness dwelleth !
How it makes the Godhead known!
Of Thy deepest depth it telleth,
Everlasting Three in One!

Fullest praise Thy saints thus bring The
Meetliest thus art Thou adored ;
This the song they ever sing Thee,
Holy, holy, holy Lord!

4 Lord, with sin-bound souls Thou beares
Struggling towards this strain divine;
Glad on mortal lips Thou hearest
That thrice-awful name of Thine.
But Thou listenest, O how sweetly!
When from holy lips outpoured,
Rings through heaven this strain full me
Holy, holy, holy Lord!

5 Shall we, Lord, fit voices never
Bring to that eternal hymn?
Hallow us to help the endeavour
Of Thy pure-lipped seraphim!
Hark! their own high strain we bring TI

Listen to the full accord!

This the song we ever sing Thee,
Holy, holy, holy Lord!