SING a song of joy! Praise our God with mirth! His flock who can destroy? Is He not Lord of Heaven and earth? Sing we then secure, Tuning well our strings! With voice, as echo pure, Let us renown the King of Kings! First who taught the day From the East to rise? Whom doth the sun obey When in the seas his glory dies? He the stars directs That in order stand: Who heaven and earth protects But He that framed them with His hand? Angels round attend, Waiting on His will; Armed millions He doth send To aid the good or plague the ill. All that dread His name, And His 'hests observe, His arm will shield from shame: Their steps from truth shall never swerve. Let us then rejoice, Sounding loud His praise: So will He hear our voice And bless on earth our peaceful days. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SCARECROW by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE A CELEBRATION OF CHARIS: 1. HIS EXCUSE FOR LOVING by BEN JONSON TACKING SHIP OFF SHORE by WALTER MITCHELL HENRY WARD BEECHER by CHARLES HENRY PHELPS A PRAYER by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL TO - (4) by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH ODES: BOOK 1. ODE 1. PREFACE by MARK AKENSIDE TO MY FRIEND MR. THOMAS FLATMAN, ON THE PUBLISHING OF THESE HIS POEMS by FRANCIS BARNARD (D. 1698) |