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A HYMN
1 AUthor of life and light, Great Power above!
2 Parent of all, whose very self is love!
3 Shall flatt'ring reason make a faint essay
4 To paint one spark of thy eternal ray?
5 Not all the years that in creation roll,
6 Not all the finer organs of the soul;
7 The heart of man grows speechless in thy praise,
8 While angels, lost in silent wonder, gaze.
9 Soon as the morning trembles through the sky,
10 To wake the world, we view thy piercing eye;
11 The tuneful lark, elated, leaves her nest,
12 The sun's warm lustre beaming on her breast:
13 Through worlds untold the morning hymns resound
14 Till Heav'n's high arch re-echoes back the sound.
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Author: Rebekah Carmichael (later Hay)
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heroic couplet; hymn
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Carmichael, Miss (Rebekah) (fl. 1790-1806). Poems. Edinburgh: Peter Hill, 1790, p. 84. 92p. (ESTC T104666) (Page images digitized from a copy at University of California Libraries — third-party rights apply.)
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- ON A LATE DISTURBANCE IN THE THEATRE ()
- ON A REAL INSTANCE OF DISINTERESTED FRIENDSHIP ()
- ON A YOUNG GENTLEMAN's RETURN FROM JAMAICA ()
- ON A YOUNG LADY ()
- ON A YOUNG LADY, WHO ASKED A NECKLACE OF A GENTLEMAN's HAIR, AND WAS REFUSED ()
- ON MR ****** ()
- ON MR ****** ACTOR ()
- ON RECEIVING A POT OF THYME ()
- ON THE AUTHOR'S BIRTH-DAY ()
- ON THE BIRTH-DAY OF A YOUNG GENTLEMAN IN THE EAST INDIES ()
- ON THE FATE OF CAPTAIN G***** ()
- ON THE ST BERNARD'S CANARY BIRDS ()
- ON THE STUMP OF AN OLD TREE ()
- ON THE SUDDEN DEATH OF A YOUNG GENTLEMAN ()
- A REQUEST ()
- A ROMANTIC SCENE Which happened in the year 1746. ()
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