Nature's Wonders. [With Plates.] |
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Page 83 - Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth; While all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings, as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Page 206 - Our outward life requires them not — Then wherefore had they birth ? To minister delight to man — To beautify the earth. To comfort man — to whisper hope, Whene'er his faith is dim ; For Who so careth for the flowers Will much more care for him.
Page 98 - Fear him, ye saints, and you will then Have nothing else to fear; Make you his service your delight, Your wants shall be his care.
Page 206 - Without a flower at all. He might have made enough, enough, For every want of ours ; For luxury, medicine, and toil, And yet have made no flowers.
Page 28 - His blessings fall in plenteous showers Upon the lap of earth, That teems with foliage, fruits and flowers, And rings with infant mirth. 6 If God hath made this world so fair, Where sin and death abound, How beautiful beyond compare Will Paradise be found ! 123.
Page 75 - He telleth the number of the stars, and calleth them all by their names.
Page 71 - When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, The moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained ; What is man, that thou art mindful of him 1 And the son of man, that thou visitest him...
Page 176 - My doctrine shall drop as the rain, My speech shall distil as the dew...
Page 221 - Thou usest all thy works, The weakest things that be ; Each has a service of its own For all things wait on thee. Thou usest the high stars, The tiny drops of dew, The giant peak and little hill ;My God, Oh use me too...
Page 27 - THE GOD of Nature and of Grace In all his works appears ; His goodness through the earth we trace, His grandeur in the spheres.