[Verse 1]
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O worship the King all-glorious above,
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O gratefully sing his power and his love:
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our shield and defender, the Ancient of Days,
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pavilioned in splendor and girded with praise.
[Verse 2]
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O tell of his might, O sing of his grace,
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whose robe is the light, whose canopy space.
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His chariots of wrath the deep thunderclouds form,
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and dark is his path on the wings of the storm.
[Verse 3]
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The earth with its store of wonders untold,
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Almighty your pow’r has founded of old;
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has ‘stablished it fast by a changeless decree,
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and round it has cast, like a mantle the sea.
[Verse 4]
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Your bountiful care, what tongue can recite?
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It breathes in the air, it shines in the light;
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it streams from the hills, it descends to the plain,
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and sweetly distills in the dew and the rain.
[Verse 5]
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Frail children of dust, and feeble as frail,
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in you do we trust, nor find you to fail;
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your mercies, how tender, how firm to the end,
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our Maker, Defender, Redeemer, and Friend!
[Verse 6]
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O measureless Might! Ineffable Love!
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While angels delight to hymn you a-bove,
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the humbler creation, though feeble their lays,
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with true adoration shall lisp to your praise!