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Hymn: There's not a tint that paints the rose (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal Revised

Date: 1882

Compiler: A I Hobbs et al

Publisher/Printer: Christian Publishing Co

First Line: There's not a tint that paints the rose

Topic: God/Creator

Writer: J Wallace

Composer: J Dykes

Meter: CM

Tune: St Agnes

Hymn Number: 291

Page Number: 106, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

THERE'S not a tint that paints the rose,

Or decks the lily fair,

Or streaks the humblest flow'r that blows,

But God has plac'd it there.



There's not a start whose twinkling light

Illumes the distant earth,

And cheers the solemn gloom of night,

But goodness gave it birth.



There's not a cloud whose dews distill

Upon the parching clod,

And clothe with verdure vale and hill,

That is not sent of God.



Around, beneath, below, above,

Wherever space extends,

Thereever heav'n displays its boundless love,

And pow'r with goodness blends.