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When I with curious eyes survey

When I with curious eyes survey

Published in 11 hymnals

Representative Text

1 When I with curious eyes survey
My complicated frame,
I read on ev'ry part inscrib'd
My great Creator's name.

2 With nicest art, in secret, God
Did ev'ry member write;
And, when the model was complete,
My eyes beheld the light.

3 He bade the purple flood of life
In circling streams to flow;
And sent the genial heat around
Though ev'ry part to glow.

4. Why was my body form'd erect,
Whilst brutes bow down to earth?
But that my soul should learn to know,
And claim it's nobler birth.

5. Author of life! my tongue shall sing
The wonders of my frame.
Long as I breathe, and think and speak,
I'll praise thy glorious name.

Source: A Collection of Hymns and A Liturgy: for the use of Evangelical Lutheran Churches; to which are added prayers for families and individuals #42

Text Information

First Line: When I with curious eyes survey
Source: Exeter Collection
Copyright: Public Domain

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A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for Christian Worship (10th ed.) #509

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A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for Christian Worship (6th ed.) #509

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A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for Christian Worship. (3rd ed.) #509

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A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for Christian Worship. (45th ed.) #509

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A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for Christian Worship. 16th ed. #509

The Chapel Hymn Book (4th ed.) #d405

The Chapel Hymn Book. 5th ed. #d397

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