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HYMNS.
629.
Spring.
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XT AIL, hail, revived, reviving spring!
Fair type of heav’n’s eternal year !
While nature’s works thy praises sing,
’ ratitude salutes thee here !
Swell, gently swell the solemn song.
Now pour the bounding notes along:
Teach choirs below, to choirs above.
To echo back the solemn lay ;
And, as they praise unbounded love,
To join in bounty’s holiday.
To God, the universal King,
Be sacred ev’ry grateful choir!
In ceaseless hymns all praises sing
That endless bounty can inspire !
630.
Summer,—an Harvest Hymn.
If. rPO praise the ever bounteous Lord,
jj '*• My soul, wake all thy pow’rs:
. He calls, and at his voice come forth
’ The smiling harvest hours.
2 His cov’nant with the earth he keeps ;
■' My tongue his goodness sing:
■ Summer and winter know their time,
'' His harvest crowns the Spring.
Well pleas’d the toiling swains behold
The waving yellow crop :
i . 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
l The rip’ning harvest bless.