SACRED SONGS
TO
EDWARD TUITE DALTON, ESQ.
THE FIRST NUMBER
OF
SACRED SONGS
IS INSCRIBED,
BY HIS SINCERE AND AFFECTIONATE FRIEND,
THOMAS MOORE.
_Mayfield Cottage, Ashbourne_,
_May, 1816_
SACRED SONGS
THOU ART, O GOD.
(Air.--Unknown.)[1]
"The day is thine, the night is also thine: thou hast prepared the
light and the sun.
"Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and
winter."
--_Psalm_ lxxiv. 16, 17.
Thou art, O God, the life and light
Of all this wondrous world we see;
Its glow by day, its smile by night,
Are but reflections caught from Thee.
Where'er we turn, thy glories shine,
And all things fair and bright are Thine!
When Day, with farewell beam, delays
Among the opening clouds of Even,
And we can almost think we gaze
Thro' golden vistas into Heaven--
Those hues, that make the Sun's decline
So soft, so radiant, LORD! are Thine.
When Night, with wings of starry gloom,
O'ershadows all the earth and skies,
Like some dark, beauteous bird, whose plume
Is sparkling with unnumbered eyes--
That sacred gloom, those fires divine,
So grand, so countless, LORD! are Thine.
When youthful Spring around us breathes,
Thy Spirit warms her fragrant sigh;
And every flower the Summer wreaths
Is born beneath that kindling eye.
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