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PART 1
1. Eternal Wisdom, Thee we praise
Thee the creation sings:
With thy loud name, rocks, hills, and seas
And heaven's high palace rings.
2. Place me on the bright wings of day
To travel with the sun;
With what amaze shall I survey
The wonders Thou hall done!
3. Thy hand, how wide it spread the sky!
How glorious to behold!
Tinged with a blue of heavenly dye
And starred with sparkling gold,
4. There thou had bid the globes of light
Their endless circles run;
There the pale planet rules the night,
And day obeys the sun.
PART 2
5. Downward I turn my wondering eyes
On clouds and storms below:
Those underregions of the skies
Thy numerous glories show.
6. The noisy winds stand ready there
Thy orders to obey;
With sounding wings they sweep the air,
To make Thy chariot way.
7. There, like a trumpet loud and strong,
Thy thunder shakes our coast;
While the red lightnings wave along
The banners of thine host.
8. On the thin air, without a prop,
Hang fruitful showers around:
At thy command they sink, and drop
Their fatness on the ground.
