The Cyber Hymnal ‎#9527

9527. There Is A God

1 There is a God, all nature speaks,
Through earth, and air, & seas, and skies,
See, from the clouds His glory breaks,
When the first beams of morning rise:

2 The rising sun, serenely bright,
O’er the wide world’s extended frame,
Inscribes, in characters of light,
His mighty Maker’s glorious name.

3 Diffusing life, His influence spreads,
And health and plenty smile around,
And fruitful fields, and verdant meads,
Are with a thousand blessings crowned.

4 Almighty goodness, power divine,
The fields and verdant meads display;
And bless the hand which made them shine,
With various charms profusely gay.

5 For man and beast, here daily food
In wide diffusive plenty grows!
And there, for drink, the crystal flood
In streams sweet winding, gently flows.

6 By cooling streams, and softening showers,
The vegetable race are fed,
And trees, and plants, and herbs, and flowers,
Their Maker’s bounty smiling spread.

7 The flowery tribes, all blooming, rise,
Above the faint attempts of art,
Their bright, inimitable dyes,
Speak sweet conviction to the heart.

8 Ye curious minds who roam abroad,
And trace creation’s wonders o’er,
Confess the footsteps of the God,
And bow before Him, and adore.

Text Information

• First Line: There is a God, all nature speaks
• Title: There Is A God
• Author: Anne Steele
• Meter: LM
• Language: English
• Source: Poems on Subjects Chiefly Devotional, 1760
• Copyright: Public Domain

Tune Information

• Name: MALDEN
• Meter: LM
• Key: E Major
• Copyright: Public Domain