SONGS OF GOD AND NATURE. GOD IN ALL. HOU art, O God, the light and life Its glow by day, its smile by night, When Day, with farewell beam, delays Through golden vistas into heaven- A When Night, with wings of starry gloom, When youthful Spring around us breathes, -Sacred Melodies. GOD of the earth's extended plains! Where man might commune with the sky; The tall cliff challenges the storm That lowers upon the vale below, Where shaded fountains send their streams God of the dark and heavy deep! The waves lie sleeping on the sands, Till the fierce trumpet of the storm Hath summon'd up their thund'ring bands; Then the white sails are dash'd like foam, Or hurry, trembling, o'er the seas, Till, calm'd by Thee, the sinking gale Serenely breathes, Depart in peace. God of the forest's solemn shade! When, side by side, their ranks they form To weave on high their plumes of green, And fight their battles with the storm. God of the light and viewless air! The fierce and wintry tempests blow; That hardly lifts the drooping flower, God of the fair and open sky! How gloriously above us springs The tented dome of heavenly blue, Suspended on the rainbow's rings! |