God's Goodness to the Children of Men

Verse 1

Ye sons of men, with joy record The various wonders of the LORD; And let his power and goodness sound Thro' all your tribes the earth around.

Verse 2

Let the high heavens your songs invite, Those spacious fields of brilliant light; Where sun and moon and planets roll, And stars, that glow from pole to pole.

Verse 3

Sing, earth, in verdant robes array'd, Its herbs and flowers, its fruits and shade; Peopled with life of various forms, Of fish, and fowl, and beasts, and worms.

Verse 4

View the broad sea's majestic plains, And think how wide its Maker reigns; That band remotest nations joins, And on each wave his goodness shines.

Verse 5

But O! that brighter world above, Where lives and reigns incarnate love, God's only Son, in flesh array'd, For man a bleeding victim made.

Verse 6

Thither my soul with rapture soar There in the land of praise adore; The theme demands an angel's lay, Demands an everlasting day.