Hymnal: A Selection of Christian Hymns
Date: 1818
Compiler: Rice Haggard
Publisher/Printer: John Norvell
First Line: Ye sons of men with joy record
Topic: The Goodness of God
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: LM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 122
Page Number: 123, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsYe sons of men, with joy record
The various wonders of the Lord;
And let his power and Goodness sound
Thro' all your tribes the earth around.
Let the high heavens your songs invite,
Those spacious fields of brilliant light;
Where sun, and moon, and planets roll,
And stars that shine from pole to pole.
Sing earth, in verdant robes arrayed.
Its herbs and flowers, its fruits and shade,
Peopled with life of various forms,
Fishes and fowls, and beasts and worms.
View the broad sea's majestic plains,
And think how wide its maker reigns;
That band remotest nations joins,
And on each wave his goodness shines.
But O, that brighter world above,
Where lives and reigns incarnate love,
God's only Son, in flesh arrayed,
For man a bleeding victim made.
Thither, my soul, with rapture soar,
There in the world of praise adore;
This theme demands an angel's lay,
Demands an undeclining day.