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The Spring improved

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 20 hymnals Topics: Special Occasions The Seasons First Line: Behold! long-wish'd-for spring is come Lyrics: 1 Behold! long-wish'd-for spring is come, How alter'd is the scene! The trees and shrubs are dress'd in bloom, The earth array'd in green. 2 Where'er we tread, the clustering flowers Beauteous around us spring; The birds, with joint harmonious powers, Invite our hearts to sing. 3 But ah! in vain I strive to join Oppress'd with sin and doubt; I feel 'tis winter still within, Though all is spring without. 4 O! would my Savior, from on high, Break through these clouds and shine, No creature then more blest than I, No song more loud than mine. 5 Lord, let thy word my hopes revive, And overcome my foes; O make my languid graces thrive, And blossom like the rose!

Summer - a Harvest Hymn

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 100 hymnals Topics: Special Occasions The Seasons First Line: To praise the ever-bounteous Lord Lyrics: 1 To praise the ever-bounteous Lord, My soul, wake all thy powers: He calls, and at his voice come forth The smiling harvest hours. 2 His covenant with the earth he keeps; My tongue, his goodness sing; Summer and winter know their time, His harvest crowns the spring. 3 Well pleas'd the toiling swains behold The waving yellow crop: With joy they bear the sheaves away, And sow again in hope. 4 Thus teach me, gracious God, to sow The seeds of righteousness: Smile on my soul, and with thy beams The rip'ning harvest bless. 5 Then, in the last great harvest, I Shall reap a glorious crop: The harvest shall be far exceed What I have sown in hope.

Autumn

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 68 hymnals Topics: Special Occasions The Seasons First Line: Great God, as seasons disappear Lyrics: 1 Great God, as seasons disappear, And changes make the rolling year; As time, with rapid pinions flies, May ev'ry season make us wise. 2 Long has thy favor crown'd our days, And summer shed again its rays; No deadly cloud our sky has veil'd, No blasting winds our path assail'd. 3 Our harvest months have o'er us roll'd, And fill'd our fields with waving gold; Our tables spread, our garners stor'd! Where are our hearts to praise the Lord! 4 The solemn harvest comes apace, The closing day of life and grace: Time of decision, awful hour! Around it let no tempest low'r! 5 Prepare us, Lord, by grace divine, Like stars in heaven to rise and shine; Then shall our happy souls above, Reap the full harvest of thy love!

Winter

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 108 hymnals Topics: Special Occasions The Seasons First Line: Stern winter throws its icy chains Lyrics: 1 Stern winter throws his icy chains; Encircling nature round; How bleak, how comfortless the plains, Late with gay verdure crown'd! 2 The sun withdraws his vital beams, And light and warmth depart; And drooping, lifeless nature seems An emblem of my heart. 3 My heart, when mental winter reigns, In night's dark mantle clad; Confin'd in cold, inactive chains, How desolate and sad! 4 Return, O blissful sun, and bring The soul-reviving ray; This mental winter shall be spring, This darkness cheerful day. 5 O happy state, divine abode, Where spring eternal reigns; And perfect day, the smile of God, Fills all the heavenly plains. 6 Great Source of light, thy beams display, My drooping joys restore: And guide me to the seats of day, Where winter chills no more. Scripture: Job 38:29-30

Almighty Father, gracious Lord

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 132 hymnals Topics: Special Occasions The New Year Lyrics: 1 Almighty Father, gracious Lord, Kind guardian of my days, Thy mercies let my heart record In songs of grateful praise. 2 In life's first dawn, my tender frame Was thy indulgent care, Long ere I could pronounce thy name, Or breathe the infant prayer. 3 Each rolling year new favors brought From thy exhaustless store; But, ah! in vain my laboring thought Would count thy mercies o'er. 4 While sweet reflection, through my day, Thy bounteous hand would trace, Still dearer blessings claim thy praise, The blessings of thy grace. 5 Yes, I adore thee, gracious Lord! For favors more divine; That I have known thy sacred word, Where all thy glories shine. 6 Lord, when this mortal frame decays, And every weakness dies, Complete the wonders of thy grace, And raise me to the skies.

Dependence on God

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 75 hymnals Topics: Special Occasions The New Year First Line: God of our lives! thy constant care Lyrics: 1 God of our lives! thy constant care With blessings crowns each op'ning year. These lives, so frail, dost thou prolong, And wake anew our annual song. 2 How many precious souls are fled To the dark regions of the dead, Since, from this day, the changing sun Through his last yearly course has run! 3 We yet survive; but who can say, Or through the year, or month, or day, I shall retain my vital breath, Thus far at least in league with death? 4 That breath is thine, eternal God! 'Tis thine to fix the soul's abode: We hold our lives from thee alone, On earth, or in the world unknown. 5 To thee we all our pow'rs resign; Make us and own us still as thine: Then shall we smile, secure from fear, Though death should blast the rising year. 6 Thy children, eager to be gone, Bid time's impetuous tide roll on, And land them on that blooming shore Where years and death are known no more.

My flying years, time urges on

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 10 hymnals Topics: Special Occasions The New Year Lyrics: 1 My flying years, time urges on; What's mortal must decay; My friends--my youth's companions gone, Can I expect to stay? 2 Can I exemption please, when death Projects his awful dart? Can med'cine then prolong my breath? Or virtue shield my heart? 3 Oh! no--then smooth, O Lord, the hour; On thee my hope depends: Support me with almighty pow'r, While dust to dust descend. 4 Then shall my soul, O gracious God! (While angels guard the way,) With rapture haste to thine abode, To dwell in endless day. 5 Thro' heaven, howe'er remote the bound, Thy love I'll then proclaim: And join the choir of saints that sound Their great Redeemer's name.

Sun, stand thou still

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 16 hymnals Topics: Special Occasions The New Year First Line: "Stand still, refulgent orb of day!" Lyrics: 1 "Stand still, refulgent orb of day!" The Jewish victor cries: So shall, at last, an angel say, And tear it from the skies. 2 A flame, intenser than the sun, Shall melt his golden urn; Time's empty glass no more shall run, Nor human years return. 3 Then, with immortal splendor bright; That glorious orb shall rise, Which through eternity shall light The new-created skies. 4 His moral triumphs then complete, Jesus, our Lord, shall place Before his heav'nly Father's seat The heirs of life and grace. 5 Unceasing flows the mortal tide; Unceasing let it flow: If thou, O Lord, our guard and guide, Wilt daily grace bestow. 6 Then, sun of nature! roll along And bear our years away: The sooner shall we join the song Of everlasting day. Scripture: Joshua 10:12

A Morning Song

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 459 hymnals Topics: Special Occasions Morning and Evening First Line: Once more, my soul, the rising day Lyrics: 1 Once more, my soul, the rising day Salutes thy waking eyes, Once more, my voice, thy tribute pay To him that rules the skies. 2 Night unto night his name repeats, The day renews the sound, Wide as the heaven on which he sits To turn the seasons round. 3 'Tis he supports my mortal frame, My tongue shall speak his praise; My sins would rouse his wrath to flame, And yet his wrath delays. 4 [On a poor worm thy power might tread, And I could ne'er withstand; Thy justice might have crush'd me dead, But mercy held thine hand. 5 A thousand wretched souls are fled Since the last setting sun, And yet thou length'nest out my thread, And yet my moments run.] 6 Dear God, let all my hours be thine Whilst I enjoy the light, Then shall my sun in smiles decline, And bring a pleasant night.

Praise to God in the Morning

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 112 hymnals Topics: Special Occasions Morning and Evening First Line: Lord of my life! O may thy praise Lyrics: 1 Lord of my life! O may thy praise Employ my noblest pow'rs, Whose goodness lengthens out my days, And fills the circling hours! 2 Preserv'd by thy almighty arm, I pass the shades of night, Serene and safe from ev'ry harm, And see returning light. 3 While many spent the night in sighs, And restless pains and woes, In gentle sleep I clos'd my eyes And undisturb'd repose. 4 When sleep, death's semblance, o'er me spread, And I unconscious lay; Thy watchful care was round my bed To guard my feeble clay. 5 O let the same almighty care My waking hours attend: From ev'ry trespass, ev'ry snare, My heedless steps defend. 6 Smile on my minutes as they roll, And guide my future days; And let thy goodness fill my soul With gratitude and praise.