Hymnal: A Selection of Christian Hymns
Date: 1818
Compiler: Rice Haggard
Publisher/Printer: John Norvell
First Line: From winter's barren clods
Topic: God Perfect
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: SM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 304
Page Number: 283, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsFrom winter's barren clods,
From winter's joyless waste,
The spring in sudden youth appears,
With blooming beauty grac'd.
How balmy is the air!
How warm the solar beams
And to refresh the ground, the rains
Descend in gentle streams.
Great God, at thy command
Seasons in order rise;
Thy power and love in concert reign
Thro' earth, and seas, and skies.
With grateful praise we own
Thy providential hand,
While grass for kine, and herb and corn
For men, enrich the land.
But greater still the gift
Of thine incarnate Son;
By him forgiveness, peace, and joy
Thro' endless ages run.