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464 While the earth remaineth, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer

and winter, and day and night shall not cease. Gen. viii: 22.

1 Eternal Source of every joy!

Well may Thy praise our lips employ,
While in Thy temple we appear:
Thy goodness crowns the circling year.

2 The flow'ry Spring, at Thy command,
Embalms the air and paints the land:
And summer's rays with vigor shine,
To raise the corn, and cheer the vine.

3 Thy hand, in Autumn, richly pours,
Through all our coasts, redundant stores :
E'en Winter, softened by Thy care,
A face of horror cannot wear.

4 The seasons, months, the weeks and days,
Demand successive songs of praise:

Our grateful homage shall be paid,
With opening light, and evening shade.

Dox. II

9:3

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A-MEN.

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Ye shall proclaim liberty throughout
all the land unto all the inhabitants
thereof. Levit. xxv: 10.

I My country, 'tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,

Of thee I sing :
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrim's pride,
From every mountain-side

Let freedom ring!

2 My native country, thee,
Land of the noble free,
Thy name I love:

I love thy rocks and rills,
Thy woods and templed hills;
My heart with rapture thrills
Like that above.

3 Let music swell the breeze,
And ring from all the trees

Sweet freedom's song;
Let mortal tongues awake,
Let all that breathe partake;
Let rocks their silence break,
The sound prolong.

4 Our fathers' God, to Thee,
Author of liberty,

To Thee we sing:
Long may our land be bright

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God be merciful unto us, and bless us, and cause his face to shine upon us.

Ps. lxvii: 1.

I Great God! Thou dost all nations rule,
And their affairs control;

Thy power extends o'er all the earth,
Thy love from pole to pole.

2 Our native land in mercy view!
From heaven, O Lord, look down!
Thy kingdom in each heart erect!
Maintain Thy rightful crown !

3 On people and on ruler let

Thy blessing, Lord, be shed;
To God and country true, may we
In wisdom's paths be led.

4 As Thee, their God our fathers owned,
So Thou art still our King:
Thou only canst our peace maintain,
Or our deliverance bring.

5 To Thee all glory we ascribe,
From whom salvation came;

In God, our shield, we will rejoice,
And ever bless Thy Name.

A-MEN.

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I Lord, behold us with Thy bless- 3 Lord,dismiss us with Thy blessing;

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