While lasts this solid globe, my God, my king

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While lasts this solid globe, my God, my king, Thy name, thy pow'r, thy majesty, I'll sing;

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Both night and day my grateful voice I'll raise, And ev'ry hour shall hear me hymn thy praise.

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Great art thou, Lord, and mighty is thy pow'r, Too great for human wisdom to explore!

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Yet, while yon starry lights above shall roll; Thy mighty acts shall ev'ry age extol.

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With me the varied nations all around Thy majesty, thy glory, shall resound; Old hoary age shall teach each list'ning son, With pious joy, the wonders thou hast done;

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With raptur'd hearts shall hear th' astonish'd youth Thy justice, thy beneficence, thy truth:

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How thou the wretched, gracious, dost relieve, How slow to wrath, how ready to forgive;

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How good to all; how all yon orbs above, This earth beneath, thy gracious goodness prove,

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Thy works, O God, and all thy saints shall join To hail thy glorious name in hymns divine;

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With joyous transport their Creator sing, The pow'r, the glory, of their heav'nly king;

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And to all ages and all nations shew, What to the ruler of the world they owe.

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Eternal pow'r is thine; shall last thy pow'r, When dies the world, when time itself's no more.

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Thou lift'st the humble from their low distress, And giv'st them affluence, and giv'st them peace.

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On thee all eyes are fix'd, nor fix'd in vain; Thy bounteous pow'r all nature does sustain:

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Thy hand thou open'st, and on all below, To their desire, unnumber'd blessings flow.

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Thy truth, O God, demands continued praise, Just in thy works, and holy in thy ways!

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And they who to their God in faith apply, Share strait thy goodness and thy clemency;

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And they, who to their God approach in fear, Prove strait, all-clement, thou their suit wilt hear.

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Thou giv'st them, ev'ry blessing to enjoy, And dost their impious enemies destroy;

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Therefore with me all earth shall sing thy praise, Shall hymn thy pow'r in ever-grateful lays.