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Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: The spacious firmament on high (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book

Date: 1865

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern

First Line: The spacious firmament on high

Topic: God/In Creation

Writer: <no first name given> Addison

Composer:

Meter: LM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 43

Page Number: 027, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

The spacious firmament on high,

With all the blue ethereal sky,

And spangled heav'ns, a shining frame,

Their great Original proclaim.



Th' unwearied sun, from day to day,

Does his Creator's power display,

And publishes to ev'ry land

The work of an almighty hand.



Soon as the ev'ning shades prevail,

The moon takes up the wondrous tale,

And nightly to the list'ning earth

Repeats the story of her birth:



While all the stars that round her burn,

And all the planets in their turn,

Confirm the tidings as they roll,

And spread the truth from pole to pole.



What though in solemn silence all

Move round this dark terrestrial ball --

What though no real voice nor sound 

Amid their radiant orbs be found --



In reasons' ear they all rejoice,

And utter forth a glorious voice;

For ever singing as they shine,

The hand that made us is divine!