Poems of Home and Country/Divine Providence

by Samuel Francis Smith

For works with similar titles, see Divine Providence.

DIVINE PROVIDENCE.

DEDICATION HYMN.

OH, praise ye Jehovah; His glory proclaim!
Bring joyful hosannas to honor His name;
With glad acclamations His altar draw near;
Bow low to His footstool; Jehovah is here.

He speaks in creation; He rules o'er the flood,
Through Nature's wide realm the Onmipotent God;
But chooses the temples we build to His praise,
As shrines for His name, and abodes of His grace.

Then come where we wait Thy blessing to prove,
Thou, strong to redeem, and Thou, matchless in love;
Like light breaking forth from the gates of the morn,
May rays from Thy glory this temple adorn!