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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE WILDERNESS TRANSFORMED, by PHILIP DODDRIDGE Poet's Biography First Line: Amazing, beauteous change! Last Line: Of ardent praise. Subject(s): Worship | |||
Amazing, beauteous change! A world created new! My thoughts with transport range, The lovely scene to view; In all I trace, Saviour divine, The word is thine, -- Be thine the praise! See crystal fountains play Amidst the burning sands; The river's winding way Shines through the thirsty lands; New grass is seen, And o'er the meads Its carpet spreads Of living green. Where pointed brambles grew, Intwined with horrid thorn Gay flowers, forever new, The painted fields adorn, -- The blushing rose And lily there, In union fair, Their sweets disclose. Where the bleak mountnin stood All bare and disarrayed, See the wide-branching wood Diffuse its grateful shade; Tall cedars nod, And oaks and pines, And elms and vines Confess thee God. The tyrants of the plain Their savage chase give o'er, -- No more they rend the slain, And thirst for blood no more; But infant hands Fierce tigers stroke, And lions yoke In flowery bands. O, when, Almighty Lord! Shall these glad things arise, To verify thy word, And bless our wandering eyes? That earth may raise, With all its tongues, United songs Of ardent praise. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...COMPANIONSHIP by MALTBIE DAVENPORT BABCOCK FOR I WILL CONSIDER YOUR DOG MOLLY by DAVID LEHMAN RUSSIAN CATHEDRAL by CLAUDE MCKAY LITTLE WHITE CHURCH by MARILYN NELSON A STEEPLE ON THE HOUSE by ROBERT FROST MATE (1) by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON ANSWER TO PRAYER by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON THE TEN COMMANDMENTS by GEORGE SANTAYANA DUM VIVIMUS, VIVAMUS by PHILIP DODDRIDGE HEAR US, IN THIS THY HOUSE by PHILIP DODDRIDGE MEDITATIONS ON THE SEPULCHRE IN THE GARDEN by PHILIP DODDRIDGE |
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