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Lord, thou with an unerring beam
Surveyest all my powers;
My rising steps are watch'd by thee.
By thee, my resting hours.
My thoughts, scarce struggling into birth,
Great God, are known to thee;
Abroad, at home, still I'm enclosed
With thine immensity.
To thee the labyrinths of life
In open view appear;
Nor steals a whisper from my lips
Without thy listening ear.
Behind I glance, and thou art there;
Before me shines thy name;
And 'tis thy strong, Almighty hand
Sustains my tender frame.
Such knowledge mocks the vain essays
Of my astonished mind;
Nor can my reason's soaring eye
Its towering summit find.
PART SECOND.
Where from thy spirit, shall I stretch
The pinions of my flight?
Or where, through nature's spacious range,
Shall I elude thy sight?
Scaled I the skies, the blaze divine
Would overwhelm my soul;
Plunged I to hell, there should I hear
Thine awful thunders roll.
If on a morning's darting ray,
With matchless speed I rode,
And flew to the wild, lonely shore
That bounds the ocean's flood.
Thither thine hand, all-present God,
Must guide the wond'rous way,
And thine Omnipotence support
The fabric of my clay.
Should I involve myself around
With clouds of tenfold night,
The clouds would shine like blazing noon,
Before thy piercing sight.
'If in thy being so enclosed,
How vain th' attempt to fly,
Since every rising bud of thought
Is naked to thine eye.'
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LYRICS
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Meter:
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8 6 8 6 (C.M.)
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Bible Refs:
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Ps 139;
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LIST OF LYRIC SOURCES
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Hymn/Song Book
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Year
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MUSIC
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Name:
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ARLINGTON
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Meter:
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8 6 8 6 (C.M.)
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Dates:
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1762,1784
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LIST OF MUSIC SOURCES
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Hymn/Song Book
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Song #
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Key
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| # 482 | F | | # 372 | F | | # 39 | G | | # 255 | G | | # 405 | G | | # 142 | G | | # 261 | G | | # 440 | G | | # 656 | G | | # 155 | F | | # 207 | F |
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