Slower.

With wrapt and ador

Soon as they forth were come | to open sight |

Of day-spring, | and the Sún, | who, | scarce uprísen, |
With wheels yet hovering | o'er the ocean-brím, |
Shot parallel to the earth | his dewy ráy, |
Discovering | in wide lándskip | all the east
Of Paradise and Eden's happy plains, |
Lówly they bowed adòring; and | began
Their orisons, each morning duly paid |

In various style: | for | neither various style |
Nor holy rapture | wanted they | to praise

Their Maker, in fit stráins | pronounced, or súng,
Unmeditated; | such prompt eloquence |

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Flowed from their lips, | in prose or numerous vèrse ;-
More túnable | than needed lute | or harp |

To add more sweetness; and they thus began: |

HYMN TO THE CREATOR.

"Thése are thy glorious works, | Parent of good! ¦ ing love. Almighty! | Thine | this univérsal frame,

Thus wondrous fair; | thyself | hòw wondrous then! |
Unspeakable! | who sitt'st | above these heavens, |
To us invisible, | or dímly seen |

In these thy lòwest works; yet | thése declare
Thy goodness beyond thought, | and power divine.
Louder. Speak, ye who bést can tell, | ye sons of light, |
Àngels! | for ye behòld him, | and | with sóngs |

And choral symphonies, | day without night, |
Circle his throne | rejoicing :- | ye in Heaven; |
On Earth | jóin all ye creatures | to extol

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150

Fervently. Him first, | him lást, | him midst, | and | without end! | "Fairest of stars! | last | in the train of night, |

Sweetly.

128 Day-spring, the east; the dawn. 130 Parallel to, level with; having the same direction.

131 Landskip, picture; literally land

shape.

134 Orisons, prayers.

136 Rapture, high delight; ecstasy.

137 Pronounced, spoken.

a stringed instrument like the guitar.

142 These are thy glorious works. Compare with Ps. cxlviii.

143 Universal frame, frame of the universe.

151 Choral symphonies, grand part

songs sung by bands of singers.

138 Unmeditated, not prepared before- 155 Fairest of stars, the planet Venus,

hand; extemporë.

139 Numerous, measured; melodious. 140 Tunable, tuneful; musical.-Lute,

which appears as an evening star when to the east of the sun, and as a morning star when to the west.

With majesty.

Quicker.

Change of time and tone.

Change of time and tone.

Louder.

If better thou belong not to the dawn,- |

Sure pledge of dày, | that crown'st the smiling Mórn |
With thy bright circlet,- | praise him in thy sphere, |
While day arises, that sweet hour of prime. |

"Thou Sún! of this great world | both eye | and soul, |
Acknowledge him | thy greater; | sound his praise | 161
In thy eternal course, both | when thou clímb'st, |
And when high noon hast gained, and when thou
fàll'st. |

"Moon! that nów | meet'st the orient Sun, | now |
fliest,

With the fixed stars,- | fixed | in their órb that flies; |
And ye | five other | wandering fires! | that move |
In mystic dánce, | not without song, | resound
His praise, who | out of darkness | called up light. |
"Air, and ye élements! | the éldest birth
Of Nature's womb, | that | in quaternion | run
Perpetual circle, | múltiform, | and mix |

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And nourish áll things; | let your ceaseless change |
Vàry to our great Máker | still nèw praise. |
"Ye mists and exhalations! | that now rise |
From hill or steaming lake, | dusky | or gray, |
Till the Sun | paint your fleecy skirts with góld, |
In honour to the world's great Aúthor | rise; |
Whether to deck with clouds | the uncoloured ský, |
Or wet the thirsty earth | with falling showers, |
Rising or falling | still | advance his praise. |
"His praise, ye winds! | that from four quarters blów, |

180

-namely, Mercury, Mars, the 170 In quaternion run perpetual

Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn.

167 Mystic, secret; not understood by

circle. Each element was supposed to be continually changing man.-Not without song, a refinto the others; hence the fourerence to the Greek notion of fold change-"quaternion." the music of the spheres," in 171 Multiform, of many forms. which it was supposed that the 174 Exhalations, vapours.

Softly.

Ecstatic.

A prayer.

Relapse

into simple

Breathe soft or loùd; | and wave your tops, | ye pines, |
With every plant, | in sign of worship, | wàve. |
"Fountains! | and ye that warble, | as ye flow, |
Melodious murmurs, | wárbling | tune his pràise. |
"Join voices, all ye living souls! | ye birds, |
That singing | up | to Heaven-gáte | ascend, |
Bear on your wings, | and in your notes, | his pràise. |
"Ye that in waters glide, and ye that walk
The éarth, | and stately tread, | or lowly créep! |
Witness if I be silent, | morn or éven, |

To hill or válley, | fountain or fresh sháde, |
Made vocal by my sóng, and taught hís pràise. |

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Hail, | universal Lòrd! | be bounteous still |
To give us only goòd; | and, | if the night |
Have gathered aught of evil, | or concealed, |
Disperse it, as now light | dispels the dark !” |

So prayed they | innocent, | and | to their thoughts |
narrative. Firm peace | recòvered soon, and wonted càlm. |
On to their morning's rural work | they háste, |
Among sweet dews | and flowers.

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201

185 Melodious, full of melody or sweet | 194 Bounteous, liberal in giving; music.-Murmurs. Connect with

generous.

200 Rural work, work in the fields.