| Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917. | | | | The Written Word | | By Sir Robert Grant |
| | | THE STARRY firmament on high, | |
| And all the glories of the sky, | |
| Yet shine not to Thy praise, O Lord, | |
| So brightly as Thy written word. | |
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| The hopes that holy word supplies, | 5 |
| Its truths divine and precepts wise, | |
| In each a heavenly beam I see, | |
| And every beam conducts to Thee. | |
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| When, taught by painful proof to know | |
| That all is vanity below, | 10 |
| The sinner roams from comfort far, | |
| And looks in vain for sun or star; | |
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| Soft gleaming then those lights divine, | |
| Through all the cheerless darkness shine, | |
| And sweetly to the ravished eye | 15 |
| Disclose the dayspring from on high. | |
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| Almighty Lord, the sun shall fail, | |
| The moon forget her nightly tale, | |
| And deepest silence hush on high, | |
| The radiant chorus of the sky; | 20 |
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| But, fixed for everlasting years, | |
| Unmoved amid the wreck of spheres, | |
| Thy word shall shine in cloudless day, | |
| When heaven and earth have passed away. | | | | |
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