1 Look up to heaven! th’industrious sun
Already half his course hath run;
He cannot halt nor go astray,
But our immortal spirits may.
2 Lord, since his rising in the east
If we have faltered or transgressed,
Guide, from Thy love’s abundant source,
What yet remains of this day’s course.
3 Help with Thy grace, through life’s short day,
Our upward and our downward way,
And glorify for us the west,
When we shall sink to final rest.
Wordsworth, William, the poet, the son of an attorney, was born at Cockermouth in 1770, and educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1791. Devoting himself to literature, and especially to poetry, he gradually rose into the front rank of English poets. His works include Lyrical Ballads, 1798; Poems; The Prelude; The Excursion, 1814, &c. All his poetical productions were collected and republished under his own supervision in 7 vols., in 1842. He died at Kydal Mount, near Grasmere, in 1850. Notwithstanding his rank and reputation as a poet, his pieces used as hymns are limited to the following extracts from his poems:—
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TRURO is an anonymous tune, first published in Thomas Williams's Psalmodia Evangelica, (second vol., 1789) as a setting for Isaac Watts' "Now to the Lord a noble song." Virtually nothing is known about this eighteenth-century British editor of the two-volume Psalmodia Evangelica, a collection of thr…
Display Title: Look up to heaven the industriousFirst Line: Look up to heaven the industriousTune Title: ALSTONEAuthor: William WordsworthDate: 1913Subject: Mid-Day |
Display Title: Look up to heaven! th'industrious sunFirst Line: Look up to heaven! th'industrious sunTune Title: TRUROAuthor: William WordsworthDate: 1923
Display Title: Look up to heaven! th'industrious sunFirst Line: Look up to heaven! th'industrious sunTune Title: TRUROAuthor: William WordsworthDate: 1926
Display Title: Look up to heaven! th'industrious sunFirst Line: Look up to heaven! th'industrious sunTune Title: TRUROAuthor: William WordsworthDate: 1910
Display Title: NoonFirst Line: Look up to heaven! th' industious sunAuthor: WordsworthMeter: L. M.Date: 1877Subject: The Closet and Saints' Communion |