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"THE EARTH IS FULL OF THY RICHES"
by William Cullen Bryant
THE EARTH IS FULL OF THY RICHES -
Almighty! hear thy children raise
The voice of thankfulness and praise
To Him whose wisdom deigned to plan
This fair and bright abode for man. -
For when this orb of sea and land
Was moulded in thy forming hand
Thy calmbenignant smile impressed
A beam of heaven upon its breast. -
Then rose the hillsand broad and green
The vale's deep pathway sank between;
Then stretched the plains to where the sky
Stoops and shuts in the exploring eye. -
Beneath that smile earth's blossoms glowed
Her fountains gushedher rivers flowed
And from the shadowy wood was heard
The pleasant sound of breeze and bird. -
Thy hand outspread the billowy plains
Of oceannurse of genial rains
Hung high the glorious sun and set
Night's cressets in her arch of jet. -
Lordteach uswhile the admiring sight
Dwells on Thy works in deep delight
To deem the forms of beauty here
But shadows of a brighter sphere. - -
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