Hymnal: A Selection of Christian Hymns
Date: 1818
Compiler: Rice Haggard
Publisher/Printer: John Norvell
First Line: Ye servants of your God his fame
Topic: God Perfect
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: LM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 221
Page Number: 210, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsYe servants of your God, his fame
In songs of highest praise proclaim;
Ye who, on his commands intent,
The courts of Israel's Lord frequent.
Him praise the everlasting king,
And mercy's unexhausted spring;
Haste, to his name your voices rear;
What name like his the heart can cheer?.
Thy greatness, Lord, my thoughts attest,
With awful gratitude impress'd,
Nor know among the seats divine,
A power that shall contend with thine.
O thou, whose all-disposing sway,
The heavens, the earth, and seas obey;
Whose might thro' all extent extends,
Sinks thro' all depth, all height transcends.
From eath's low margin to the skies,
Now bids the pregnant vapours rise,
The lightning's pallid sheet expands,
And glads with flowers the sorrow'd lands.
Now from the storehouse, built on high,
Permits the imprison'd winds to fly,
And, guided by thy will to sweep
The surface of the foaming deep.
Him praise, the everlasting king,
And mercy's unexhausted spring;
Haste, to this name your voices rear;
What name like his the heart can cheer?