The azure vault so far above,
Arrayed in smiles of peace and love,
Would sweetly seem the truth to prove–
“There is a God.”
The blooming earth so glad below–
The fragrant flowers–the streams that flow–
The tuneful birds–would bid us know,
“There is a God.”
Yon soaring sun on wings of fire,
Proclaims his great, celestial Sire–
‘Tis chanted by the starry choir,
“There is a God.”
We know it, too, at nights’ fair noon,
When lo! the pale and placid Moon,
Illumes the balmy night of June,
“There is a God.”
The smiling Spring, and Autumn brown,
Hoarse-raging Winter’s angry frown,
And Summer fair, unceasing own,
“There is a God.”
The mountains high, and dark, and vast–
The thunder’s roar–the howling blast–
The lightnings springing thick and fast,
Amid the gloom,
That wraps the Earth, and Sea, and Sky–
The Storm-fiend’s wild, terrific cry–
The Earth-quake’s shock–proclaim on high,
“An awful God!”
But oh! that awful God above,
Is yet a gracious God of love–
A bleeding Lamb–a wounded Dove–
The sinner’s God.
Poor sinner! love His holy name,
And when this world shall pass in flame
A heavenly mansion thou mayst claim,
To dwell with God.
(James Avis Bartley)
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