HYMN. Joanna Baillie Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Baillie, Joanna, 1762-1851. Fugitive Verses. By Joanna Baillie, author of “Dramas on the Passions,“ etc. London Edward Moxon, Dover Street. MDCCCXL. 1840 pp. 400-401.

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HYMN . THOSE , Lord , who raise their souls to thee , Not alway sink on bended knee . On earth's vast space of sea and land — Thy sky coped temple wide and grand , Swift passing thoughts of praise and prayer To thee are wafted every where , From grateful hearts , who feel and love To feel , that 'tis in thee they live and move . In hours of triumph or of woe ; On fortune's sunny heights , or low In gloomy deeps of mortal doom , The quickening thought will swiftly come , As from veiled heaven the lightning keen Doth pass the severed clouds between , And penetrates with equal power The humble cottage or the lordly tower . The marching soldier , stern and stark , — The seaman in his wave-tossed ark , — The king on guarded throne sustained , — The prisoner fettered and arraigned , — Will feel , like links of living fire , Their kindred to a Heavenly Sire , And in their bosoms' secret core , With speechless praise , his mighty name adore . The guileless youth , in halls of pleasure , Whose light feet time the tuneful measure , May , with thrilled heart and flashing eye , Blend holy thanks with revelry ; The very child , at gambols seen With play-mates on the sunny green , Who feels it bliss to be alive , See Mrs. Barbauld's beautiful Hymns for Children . Will to life's Lord a transient worship give . These nature's inward Hallelujas are , Warm , tho' with words unclothed ; here let them wear Thy robe of woven sounds , sweet harmony , And wend in floating beauty to the sky .