Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PARAPHRASE OF PSALM 74, 16, 17, by HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS


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First Line: My god! All nature owns thy sway
Last Line: The joys that from thy favour rise!


My God! all nature owns thy sway,
Thou giv'st the night and thou the day!
When all thy lov'd creation wakes,
When morning, rich in lustre, breaks,
And bathes in dew the opening flower,
To Thee we owe her fragrant hour;
And when she pours her choral song,
Her melodies to Thee belong!
Or when, in paler tints array'd,
The evening slowly spreads her shade,
That soothing shade, that grateful gloom,
Can more than day's enlivening bloom
Still every fond and vain desire,
And calmer, purer thoughts inspire;
From earth the pensive spirit free,
And lead the soften'd heart to Thee.
In every scene thy hands have dress'd,
In every form by thee impress'd,
Upon the mountain's awful head,
Or where the sheltering woods are spread;
In every note that swells the gale,
Or tuneful stream that cheers the vale,
The cavern's depth or echoing grove,
A voice is heard of praise and love.
As o'er thy work the seasons roll,
And soothe, with change of bliss, the soul,
Oh, never may their smiling train
Pass o'er the human scene in vain!
But oft as on the charm we gaze,
Attune the wondering soul to praise;
And be the joys that most we prize
The joys that from thy favour rise!





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