Fugitive Verses

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A HYMN.

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	O LORD supreme, whose works so fair,
	Sublime and varied, every where
	The gazing eye delight!
	Thy wisdom, power, and love, the day
	Doth in its splendid course display,
	As doth the glorious night,

	We look upon the ocean wide,
	Where ships upon the billows ride,
	And sea-birds wing the air,
	And feel, as o'er the blue expanse
	Soft shadows pass and sunbeams glance,
	Thy power and love are there.

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	And also on the checkered land,
	Where mountain peaks, and forests grand,
	With peopled plains between,
	And rising slow from man's abode
	The grey smoke on its heavenward road,
	In fair array are seen.

	Thus day and night, and land, and sea,
	Each in its turn, O Lord! of thee
	Speaks to the mental ear:
	And still the thoughts that they impart
	Are, to the Christian Pilgrim's heart,
	Most cherished and most dear.

About this text
Courtesy of University of California, Davis. General Library. Digital Intitiatives Program.; http://digital.lib.ucdavis.edu/projects/bwrp
http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=kt567nb8xt&brand=oac4
Title: Fugitive Verses
By:  Baillie, Joanna, 1762-1851, creator, British Women Romantic Poets Project
Date: 2001 (issued)
Contributing Institution: University of California, Davis. General Library. Digital Intitiatives Program.; http://digital.lib.ucdavis.edu/projects/bwrp
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