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628 HYMNS. [PART I
The parching grounds look green again.
And raise the reaper’s hope.
6 The various months thy goodness crowns;
How bounteous are thy ways !
The bleating flocks spread o’er the downs,
And shepherds shout thy praise.
628.
God’s Goodness in the Seasons of the Year.
Psalm Ixv. 8—13.
1 JOIN ev’ry tongue to praise the Lord,
All nature rests upon his word:
Mercy and truth his courts maintain.
And own his universal reign.
2 At his command the morning ray
Smiles in the east, and leads the day;
He guides the sun’s declining wheels
Beneath the verge of western hills.
j 3 Seasons and times obey his voice;
The ev’ning and the morn rejoice
To see the earth made soft with show’rs.
Laden with fruit, and dress’d in flow’rs.
4 ’Tis from his wat’ry stores on high.
He gives the thirsty ground supply :
He walks upon the clouds, and thence
Doth his enriching drops dispense.
5 The pastures smile in green array.
There lambs and larger cattle play;
The larger cattle and the lamb.
In diff’rent language, speak thy name.
6 Thy works pronounce thy pow’r divine ;
In all the earth thy glories shine;
Through ev’ry month thy gifts appear;
Great God 1 thy goodness crowns the year.