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Praise of Divine Love.

O worship the King, all-glorious above,

And gratefully sing his wonderful love;

Our Shield and Defender, the Ancient of days,

Pavilioned in splendor and girdled with praise.

2 Thy bountiful care, what tongue can recite?

It breathes in the air, it shines in the light;

It streams from the hills, it descends to the plain,

And sweetly distills in the dew and the rain.

3 Frail children of dust, and feeble as frail,

In thee do we trust, nor find thee to fail;

Thy mercies, how tender! how firm to the end,

Our Maker, Defender, Redeemer, and Friend!

4 Our Father and God, how faithful thy love!

While angels delight to hymn thee above,

The humbler creation, though feeble their lays.

With true adoration shall lisp to thy praise.

Sir Robert Grant, 1839.