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Text: | O Worship the King |
Author: | Robert Grant |
Tune: | HANOVER |
Composer (attributed to): | William Croft |
1 O worship the King all glorious above,
O gratefully sing God's power and God's love;
our Shield and Defender, the Ancient of Days,
pavilioned in splendour and girded with praise.
2 O tell of God's might! O sing of God's grace,
whose robe is the light; whose canopy space;
whose chariots of wrath the deep thunderclouds form,
and broad is God's path on the wings of the storm.
3 The earth with its store of wonders untold,
Almighty, your power has founded of old;
has stablished it fast by a changeless decree,
and round it has cast, like a mantle, the sea.
4 Your bountiful care what tongue can recite?
It breathes in the air, it shines in the light;
it streams from the hills, it descends to the plain,
and sweetly distills in the dew and the rain.
5 Frail children of dust, and feeble as frail,
in you do we trust, nor find you to fail;
your mercies how tender, how firm to the end,
our Maker, Defender, Redeemer, and Friend.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | O worship the King, all glorious above |
Title: | O Worship the King |
Author: | Robert Grant (1833) |
Meter: | 10 10 11 11 |
Publication Date: | 1996 |
Topic: | God: Praise and Thanksgiving; Adoration and Praise; God: Creator(32 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | HANOVER |
Composer (attributed to): | William Croft (1708) |
Meter: | 10 10 11 11 |
Key: | G Major |