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Text: | O worship the King, all glorious above |
Author: | Robert Grant (1779-1838) |
Tune: | HANNOVER |
Composer (descant): | Alan Gray (1855-1935) |
1 O worship the King, all glorious above;
O gratefully sing his power and his love;
our shield and defender, the Ancient of Days,
pavilioned in splendour and girded with praise.
2 O tell of his might, O sing of his grace,
whose robe is the light, whose canopy space;
his chariots of wrath the deep thunder clouds form,
and dark is his path on the wings of the storm.
3 The earth with its store of wonders untold,
Almighty, thy power hath founded of old;
hath stablished it fast by a changeless decree,
and round it hath cast, like a mantle, the sea.
4 Thy bountiful care what tongue can recite?
It breathes in the air, it shines in the light;
it streams from the hills, it descends to the plain,
and sweetly distils in the dew and the rain.
5 Frail children of dust, and feeble as frail,
in thee do we trust, nor find thee to fail;
thy mercies how tender, how firm to the end,
Our Maker, Defender, Redeemer, and Friend.
6 O measureless might, ineffable love,
while angels delight to hymn thee above,
thy humbler creation, though feeble their lays,
with true adoration shall sing to thy praise.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | O worship the King, all glorious above |
Author: | Robert Grant (1779-1838) |
Meter: | 10 10 11 11 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2013 |
Scripture: | |
Topic: | Creation and the Environment; Adoration; Angels(8 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | HANNOVER |
Composer (descant): | Alan Gray (1855-1935) |
Meter: | 10 10 11 11 |
Key: | G Major |
Source: | A Supplement to the New Version of the Psalms, 1708 |