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| THERE is a book, who runs may read, | |
| Which heavenly truth imparts, | |
| And all the lore its scholars need, | |
| Pure eyes and Christian hearts. | |
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| The works of God above, below, | 5 |
| Within us and around, | |
| Are pages in that book, to show | |
| How God himself is found. | |
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| The glorious sky, embracing all, | |
| Is like the Maker’s love, | 10 |
| Wherewith encompass’d, great and small | |
| In peace and order move. | |
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| The moon above, the Church below, | |
| A wondrous race they run, | |
| But all their radiance, all their glow, | 15 |
| Each borrows of its sun. | |
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| The Saviour lends the light and heat | |
| That crowns his holy hill; | |
| The saints, like stars, around his seat, | |
| Perform their courses still. | 20 |
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| The saints above are stars in heaven— | |
| What are the saints on earth? | |
| Like trees they stand whom God has given, | |
| Our Eden’s happy birth. | |
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| Faith is their fix’d unswerving root, | 25 |
| Hope their unfading flower, | |
| Fair deeds of charity their fruit, | |
| The glory of their bower. | |
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| The dew of heaven is like thy grace. | |
| It steals in silence down; | 30 |
| But where it lights, the favor’d place | |
| By richest fruits is known. | |
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| One Name, above all glorious names, | |
| With its ten thousand tongues | |
| The everlasting sea proclaims, | 35 |
| Echoing angelic songs. | |
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| The raging fire, the roaring wind, | |
| Thy boundless power display: | |
| But in the gentler breeze we find | |
| Thy spirit’s viewless way. | 40 |
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| Two worlds are ours: ’t is only sin | |
| Forbids us to descry | |
| The mystic heaven and earth within, | |
| Plain as the sea and sky. | |
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| Thou, who hast given me eyes to see | 45 |
| And love this sight so fair, | |
| Give me a heart to find out thee, | |
| And read thee everywhere. | |
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