Author: Needham Hymnal: A Selection of Hymns #CDXCVIII (1792) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Hymnal Title: A Selection of Hymns First Line: The icy chains that bound the earth Lyrics: 1 The icy chains that bound the earth
Are now dissolv'd wnad gone:
Wak'd by the sun the blooming spring
Puts his new livery on.
2 Where awful desolation reign'd
Bless'd plenty rears her head;
Exulting with a smile to see
Her late destroyer fled.
3 Teeming with life, th' advancing sun
Protracts the falling day;
Grand light of heaven! he seems to wish
To make a longer stay.
4 In clouds of gold behold him set,
Beyond the west he flies;
Short is his nightly course, and soon
He gildes the eastern skies.
5 My soul, in every scene admire
The wisdom and the power:
Behold the God in every plant,
In every opening flower.
6 Yet his word, the God of grace,
Has wrote his fairer name:
The wonders of redeeming love
My noblest songs shall claim.
7 With warmest beams, thou God of grace
Shine on this heart of mine;
Turn thou my winter into spring,
And be the glory thine. Topics: Times and Seasons The Seasons of the Year; Spring Languages: English
On the spring