Hymn to the Creator

1

Almighty creator and ruler as well
Of the earth and the heaven and darkness and hell
We adore thee—and worship as simple as when
Adam knelt in the garden the first of all men
The God of that sun that yet brings the broad day
When Eve the first flower in the first garden lay
That mercy that yet ever falls from the sky
Says that the meanest of beings never shall die

2

Almighty creator of all we behold
The mountains bare rock and the meadows all gold
The wilderness old and the desert of sand
Are his in his glory and wild barren land
To cheer and to cherish in wonder and love
The earth well as heaven, his dwellings above
Almighty creator to seek and to save
We need from the cradle thy help to the grave

3

We need thee and fear thee so ought we to fear
When thou hast no mercy none other will hear
And mercy thou shewest every day to our land
In keeping us all as the work of thy hand
In helping the feeble in seeking the lost
For man neither springs from a pillar or post
But breath[e]s from his father eternally yet
His hell or his heaven in mercy is met

4

Almighty creator of heaven and earth
Creations protector its life and its birth
In thee all began and in thee all have end
Our father at first and at last the one friend
We love and adore thee or ought so to do
From the sunrise of morning to evenings bright dew
Through morning and evening and blackest midnight
Thou'rt our faith in nights darkness and love in morns light
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