Where shall I see Him? How describe The Dread, Eternal One? His foot-prints are in every place, He called the world, and it arose ; He sets His foot upon the hills, He walks upon the hurricane, I search the rounds of space and time, Nor find his semblance there: Grandeur has nothing so sublime. Nor beauty half so fair. Yet all I am, or meet, proclaim His wisdom, love, and power: They shine from all yon rolling worlds: They bloom in every flower. He is; He was ; He aye shall be. But how, my soul? and what? Where is He, say, ye works of His ? Vain thought! where is He not? Thou Omnipresent, dread Unknown, Engage me evermore: Enlarge my views, exalt my soul, And help me to adore! c 2 STABILITY. THERE is a change in all below; Suns rise and set, tides ebb and flow, And man but lives to die. Our joys and sorrows, hopes and fears, Still course each other on : A blessing in our path appears No drop of honey, but a sting No hour that passes, but its wing The joyous sun that lights to-day The stars but shine to fall away; And let them pass-each earthly thing- On Thy eternal word, and cling To Thy almighty hand. Though sun and moon should sink in gloom, Thy promise ne'er declines : Dissolving worlds but leave Thee room To work Thy vast designs. Linked to Thy truth I hold me up, Though earth from 'neath me slide; And take content whatever cup Thy wisdom may provide. |