Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal Revised
Date: 1882
Compiler: A I Hobbs et al
Publisher/Printer: Christian Publishing Co
First Line: O worship the King all glorious above
Topic: God/Eternity of
Writer: Robert Grant
Composer:
Meter: 10s and 11s
Tune: Lyons
Hymn Number: 163
Page Number: 068, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsO WORSHIP the King, all glorious above,
And gratefully sing His wonderful love;
Our Shield and Defender, the Ancient of days,
Pavilion'd in splendor and girded with praise!
Thy bountiful care, what tongue can recite?
It breathes in the air, it shines in the light,
It streams from the hills, it descends to the plain,
And sweetly distills in the dew and the rain.
Frail children of dust, and feeble as frail,
In Thee do we trust, nor find Thee to fail;
Thy mercies, how tender! how firm to the end,
Our Maker, Defender, Preserver, and Friend!
Our Father and God, how faithful Thy love!
While angels delight to hymn Thee above,
The humbler creation, though feeble their lays,
With true adoration shall lisp to Thy praise.