A book of English poetry; ed. by T. Shorter

P:lt..'XS o.r RELIOION, 309

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Taou art, 0 GoD! the life and light

or all this wondrous world we see ;

Ita glow by d11.y, ita smile hy night,

Are but retlectiona caught from Thee.

Where'er we turn, Thy gfories shine,

And·au things' fAir and f>right are Thine

When Day, with farewell beam, dela.ya

Among the op'ning clouds of Even,

And we can almost tbiuk we gaze

Through golden viataa into Heaven-

Those hues that make the sun's decline

So soft, so radiant, LolU>, ar e Thine I

When Night, with wings of starry gloom,

O'ersh&Ciows all the earth and skies,

Like some dark, beauteous bir~ whose plume

Is sparkling with uunumber'a dyes-

That aacred gloom, those fires divine,

So grand, so countless, LoRD, are Thine I

When youthful Spring around us breathes,

Thy Spirit w&rma her fragrant sigh ;

Alld every flower the Summer wreathes

Is born beneath that kindling eye.

mere'er we turn, Thy glories Bhme,

Alld all things fair and oright are Thine l

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OB, brother man I fold to thy heart thy brother ;

Where pity dwells, the peace of God is there ;

To worah1p rightly is to love eaob other,

Es.cb smile a hymn, each kindly deed ~ p~yer.

Follow with reverent steps the great example

Of Him whose holy work was "doing ~ooo ; "

So ehall the wide earth seem our Fathers temple,

Each loving life a psalm of gratitude.