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First Line: Great god! At whose 'creative word'
Last Line: To praise all nature's god, the architect divine
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): God


GREAT GOD! at whose "creative word,"
Arising Nature owned her Lord;
At whose behest, from gloomy night
The earth arose in order bright!
To whom the poet swells the song,
And cherub's loftier notes belong:
To Thee be glory, honour, praise;
Great GO! who canst depress or raise.
Say all ye learned, all ye wise,
What towering pillars prop the skies ?
What massy chain suspends the earth ?
'Tis His high power who gave it birth.
'Tis He who sends the grateful shower;
'Tis He who paints the glowing flower.
Let the loud anthem raise the strains
While echo murmurs it again.

And ye who wander o'er the sheaf-crowned fields,
Praise Him for all the plenty harvest yields;
Let harp and voice their swelling notes combine,
To praise all nature's GOD, the architect divine







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