372 8s. M. HOGG. God of Life. 2 BLESSED be thy name forever, Thou of life the Guard and Giver! 2 Thou who slumberest not nor sleepest, Of midnight gloom, and dawning day- Like breathings of eternity; God of life! that fade shall never, Blessed be thy name forever! 373 10 & 9s. M. LONGFELLOW. The Flowers. 1 WONDROUS truths, and manifold as wondrous, But not less in the bright flowerets under us 2 Bright and glorious is that revelation Written all over this great world of ours; In these stars of earth, these golden flowers. 3 And with childlike, credulous affection, 1 PRAISE to thee, all holy God; From the world, the race, thou rulest; From the green earth's dewy sod: From the wayward hearts thou schoolest 2 Teach us, glorious Being, still May we read her gentle story. 376 P. M. W. J. Fox. True Worship. 1 GRACIOUS Power, the world pervading, We are met to worship thee; Not in formal adorations, 2 By thy wisdom mind is lighted, Light and love all flow from thee; 3 Not alone in our devotion, We are met to worship thee. 377 P. M. To the One God. BOWRING. 1 ANCIENT of Ages! humbly bent before thee, Let thy grace befriend us! Eternal, unrivalled, all-directing King! 2 Send forth thy mandate, gather in the nations, 2 Though like the wanderer, The sun gone down, Darkness be over me, Yet in my dreams I'd be, 3 There let the way appear, All that thou send'st me, Angels to beckon me Nearer, my God, to thee Nearer to thee! 4 Then with my waking thoughts, Bright with thy praise, Out of my stony griefs, Bethel I'll raise: So by my woes to be Nearer, my God, to thee Nearer to thee! 5 Or if on joyful wing Cleaving the sky, Sun, moon, and stars forgot, Upwards I fly: Still all my song shall be, Nearer to thee! |