Classic Poem

Sung at E DGEFIELD Church, on the 23 d of April , 1789,

By the Scholars of the S UNDAY S CHOOL .

B RITONS your voices raise,
Sound the full chords of praise,
Strike the loud string:
Let's in full chorus join,
To our great God, benign,
Who bids his mercy shine
On G EORGE our King.

O Lord, our God, attend —
While the pure themes ascend
On raptured wing;
Accept the grateful strain;
Long may our Monarch reign;
Exempt from care, and pain —
Long live the King.

Hark! the long aisle rebounds!
Raise the seraphic sounds,
Hosannas sing!
Join ye attentive throng —
Swell the ecstatic song,
With notes sublime, and strong —
To God, our King.