The life of the Rev John Wesley Author:John Whitehead Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Thee will I sing, ? parent Jove, And leach the world to praise and love. Yonder azure vault on high, Yonder blue, low, liquid sky, Earth, on its firm basis... more » plac'd, , And with circling waves embrac'd, All creating pow'r confess, All their niightv Maker bless. Thou shak'st all nature with thy nod, Sea, earth and air confess the God : Yet does thy pow'rful hand sustain Both earth and heav'n, both firm and main. Scarce can our daring thought arise To thy pavilion in the skies; Nor can Plato's self declare The bliss, the joy, the rapture there. Barren above thou dost not reign, But circled with a glorious tram : The sons of God, liie sons of light Ever joying in thv sight ; (For mee their sifver harps arc strung) Ever beauteous, ever young, Angelic forms their voices raise And through heav'n's arch resound thy praise. The feather'd souls that swim the air, And bathe in liquid ether there, The lark, precentor of the choir. Leading them higher still and higher, Listen and learn ; lh' angelic notes Repeating in their warbling throats : And ere to soft repose they go Tench them to their lords below: On the green turf their mossy nest, The ev'ning anthem swells their breast. Thus like thy golden chain from high Thy praise unites the earth and sky. Source of light, thou bid'st the sun On his burning axles run ; The stars like dust around him fly And strew the area of the sky. He drives so swift his race above Mortals can't perceive him move, So smooth his course, oblique or straight, Olympus shakes not with his weight. As the queen of solemn night Fills at his vase her orbs of light, Imparted lustre; thus we see The solar virtue shines by thee. Eirtrioni we'II no more Imaginary pow'r adore : Since oil, and wool, and cheerful wine, And lire-sustaining bread arc thine. T...« less