Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, HYMN OF PRAISE, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE


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HYMN OF PRAISE, by                    
First Line: Praise god for this all-beauteous earth
Last Line: Hath builded our eternal home.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): God; Praise; Religion; Theology


I

PRAISE God for this all-beauteous earth;
Praise Him for blessings of our birth;
Praise Him for all the joy of life
That far outweighs its grief and strife.

II

Praise Him for duties of our way,
Which lead to the diviner day;
Praise Him for labour, bond of all,
For after toil comes evenfall.

III

Praise Him, tho' storm-clouds intervene
And blinding mists distort the scene.
His guides are ofttimes pain and woe
To that far land to which we go.

IV

Praise Him, tho' stricken in the fight,
Sore as our need, more sure our might—
The strength to conquer, or to bear,
Apportion'd is to our despair.

V

Each time we triumph over sin
We bring more near the heaven within,
Each time we yield and vanquish'd lie
The heaven without us grows less nigh.

VI

Praise Him for His indwelling Soul,
That Glory which transmutes the whole
Of those vast realms of Light and Love
Within, around us, and above.

VII

Praise Him Who of His grace hath given
A bounteous earth, a boundless heaven,
And in the Heaven of Heavens to come
Hath builded Our Eternal Home.





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