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Text: | Nature with open volume stands |
Author: | Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 |
Tune: | NÜRNBERG |
Adapter: | John Wilson, b. 1905 |
Composer: | J. S. Bach, 1685-1750 |
1 Nature with open volume stands
To spread her Maker's praise abroad,
And every labour of his hands
Shows something worthy of a God.
2 But in the grace that rescued man
His brightest form of glory shines;
Here on the Cross 'tis fairest drawn
In precious blood and crimson lines.
3 Here his whole Name appears complete;
Nor wit can guess, nor reason prove
Which of the letters best is writ,
The Power, the Wisdom, or the Love.
4 O the sweet wonders of that Cross
Where Christ our Saviour loved, and died!
Her noblest life my spirit draws
From his dear wounds and bleeding side.
5 I would for ever speak his Name
In sounds to mortal ears unknown,
With angels join to praise the Lamb,
And worship at his Father's throne.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Nature with open volume stands |
Author: | Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 |
Meter: | LM |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1986 |
Topic: | The Christian Year: Passiontide |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | NÜRNBERG |
Composer: | J. S. Bach, 1685-1750 |
Adapter: | John Wilson, b. 1905 |
Meter: | LM |
Key: | F Major |
Source: | Schemelli's Gesangbuch, 1736 |
Copyright: | Adapt. by permission of Oxford University Press |