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The God of nature and of grace In all His work appears; His goodness through the earth we trace, His grandeur in the spheres. Behold this fair and fertile globe, By Him in wisdom planned; ’Twas He who girded, like a robe, The ocean round the land. Lift to the firmament your eye, Thither His path pursue; His glory boundless as the sky, O’erwhelms the wandering view. The forests in His strength rejoice, Hark! on the evening breeze, As once of old, the Lord God’s voice Is heard among the trees. His blessings fall in plenteous showers Upon the lap of earth, That teems with foliage, fruit, and flowers, And rings with infant mirth. If God hath made the world so fair, Where sin and death abound; How beautiful, beyond compare, Will Paradise be found!
The God of nature and of grace In all His work appears; His goodness through the earth we trace, His grandeur in the spheres. Behold this fair and fertile globe, By Him in wisdom planned; ’Twas He who girded, like a robe, The ocean round the land. Lift to the firmament your eye, Thither His path pursue; His glory boundless as the sky, O’erwhelms the wandering view. The forests in His strength rejoice, Hark! on the evening breeze, As once of old, the Lord God’s voice Is heard among the trees. His blessings fall in plenteous showers Upon the lap of earth, That teems with foliage, fruit, and flowers, And rings with infant mirth. If God hath made the world so fair, Where sin and death abound; How beautiful, beyond compare, Will Paradise be found!
Approximate author period: c. 1812 AD · industrial
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- James Montgomery
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- Approximate author period: c. 1812 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 425 · printed citation: James Montgomery · subject: PARADISE
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