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"ALL THY WORKS PRAISE THEE,
Medicinal Herbs.

I bring refreshment,—
I bring refreshment,—I bring ease and calm,—
I lavish strength and healing,—
I lavish strength and healing,—I am balm,—
We work His pitiful Will and chant our psalm.

A Spring.

Clear my pure fountain, clear and pure my rill,
My fountain and mine outflow deep and still,
I set His semblance forth and do His Will.

Sea.

To-day I praise God with a sparkling face,
My thousand thousand waves all uttering praise:
To-morrow I commit me to His Grace.

Floods.

We spring and swell meandering to and fro,
From height to depth, from depth to depth we flow,
We fertilise the world, and praise Him so.

Whales and Sea Mammals.

We Whales and Monsters gambol in His sight
Rejoicing every day and every night,
Safe in the tender keeping of His Might.