12/31/2025
let the high heavens your songs invite
those spacious fields of brilliant light
where sun and moon and planets roll
and stars that glow from pole to pole
still here below marks sacred space
where we beheld incarnate grace
God's only Son in flesh arrayed
for man a bleeding ransom made!
see earth in verdant robes arrayed
its herbs and flowers, its fruits and shade
peopled with life of various forms
fishes and fowls, and beasts, and worms
children of earth, with joy record
the various wonders of the LORD
and let his power and goodness sound
through all your tribes the earth around
view the broad sea's majestic plains
and think how wide its Maker reigns
seas join the nations, draw their lines
and on each wave his goodness shines
but Oh! that brighter world above
where lives and reigns incarnate love!
God's only Son in flesh arrayed
for man a bleeding victim made!
look there, my soul, with rapture soar
there in the land of praise adore
this theme demands an angel's lay —
forever undeclining day
children of earth, with joy record
the various wonders of the LORD
and let his power and goodness sound
through all your tribes the earth around
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Philip Doddridge, 1702-51
kdd, reworked 12.31.25
new year's eve
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