Contents
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Henry Charles Beeching, ed. (1859–1919). Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse. 1903.
By Thomas Toke Lynch (18181871)
Stars
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SEE! 1 through the heavenly arch | |
With silent stately march | |
The starry ranks for ever sweep; | |
In graduate scale of might | |
They all are sons of light, | 5 |
And all their times and orders keep. | |
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O glorious, countless host, | |
Which shall I praise the most, | |
Your lustrous groups, or course exact? | |
Ye on your way sublime | 10 |
Defy confusing time | |
Your light to dim, your path distract. | |
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Earth’s early fathers saw | |
The gospel and the law | |
In the firm beauty of the skies: | 15 |
O Thou unswerving Will, | |
The unveiled heavens still | |
Show Thee as glorious, good, and wise. | |
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Lord of the starry night, | |
With awe and with delight | 20 |
Under Thy temple dome we pray: | |
Still as we gaze above, | |
Temper our fear with love, | |
That we may filial homage pay. | |
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Not as the primal force | 25 |
Impelling Nature’s course | |
We know Thee, but as Father dear: | |
Oh, if with foolish mind | |
We judge Thee weakly kind, | |
Correct false love with filial fear. | 30 |
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Note 1. The name of T. T. Lynch is well-known in Nonconformist circles as that of a hymn-writer, but he well deserves wider recognition. The poems here given are from “The Rivulet,” a book of verses first published in 1855, and several times augmented. [back] |
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