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Ye groves and woodlands all awake > And at the strains of music break From your remotest shade ! Let every creature , —earth and ail ? , — That boundless power and love declare Which all his works pervade I
But chief , let reasoning man . proclaim With lofty songs Ms Maker ' s name !—Let crowded cities raise One general , one harmonious song , And through tlie extended earth prolong The great Jehovah ' s praise I
And ye who seek the rural slyade , And court the cool , sequester ed gte . dk , There feed devotions fire ! Unite , the tribute just tp pay * The shepherd's flute , the virgw ' s lay , And the poetic lyre !
For me , —if I forget to raise The voice of prayer , the song of praise , And every change to greet , — O let my fancy paint no more !
My tongue be mule * my joys be o ' er !—Forget my heart to beat ! Should Fate compel my steps to stray , — Bear me to distant climes away , — To regions wild and bare ! Where ' er I dwell , where ' er I roam , I find a Father and a home , For God is everywhere !
E'en to the farthest verge of earth He gives the vast creation birth , And boundless love declares In cities fall , or barren wastes , Man all his Maker ' s bounty tastes , And all His mercy shares !
And , at the last , the solemn hour , When death , with irresistless power , Shall bear my soul away To wing its long and mystic flight Through realms of gloom , and shades of night , — I cheerful will obey !
I cannot go where Endless Love , — Sustaining all yon orbs above , — Smiles not on ail around ; Educing- good from seeming ill , And better thence , and better stilly To time ' s remotest bound .
But let me cease my feeble songv Nor thus th * unequal strain , prolong , The fruitless anthem raise ! I lose myself in heavenly light !—O let me curb my daring flight , And silent muse Bis praise * Totnes , Devon , June 11 * 1 $ 24 ^
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Poetry + —A Paraphrase of Thomson ' s Hymn ?* 567
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1824, page 567, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2528/page/55/
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