ord, when my thoughts with wonder roll
O’er the sharp sorrows of thy soul,
And read my Maker’s broken laws
Repaired and honored by thy cross;

When I behold death, hell, and sin
Vanquished by that dear blood of thine,
And see the Man that groaned and died
Sit glorious by his father’s side;

My passions rise and soar above,
I’m winged with faith, and fired with love;
Fain would I reach eternal things,
And learn the notes that Gabriel sings.

But my heart fails, my tongue complains,
For want of their immortal strains
And, in such humble notes as these,
Must fall below thy victories.

Well, the kind minute must appear
When we shall leave these bodies here,
These clogs of clay, and mount on high,
To join the songs above the sky.

—from The Psalms & Hymns of Isaac Watts. Hymns and Spiritual Songs. Book II: Composed on Divine Subjects

1 Praise ye the Lord. Prayse ye the Lord from the heauen: prayse ye him in the high places.
2 Prayse ye him, all ye his Angels: praise him, all his armie.
3 Prayse ye him, sunne and moone: prayse ye him all bright starres.
4 Prayse ye him, heauens of heauens, and waters, that be aboue the heauens.
5 Let them prayse the Name of the Lord: for he commauded, and they were created.
6 And he hath established them for euer and euer: he hath made an ordinance, which shall not passe.
7 Prayse ye the Lord from the earth, ye dragons and all depths:
8 Fire and hayle, snowe and vapours, stormie winde, which execute his worde:
9 Mountaines and all hils, fruitfull trees and all ceders:
10 Beasts and all cattell, creeping things and fethered foules:
11 Kings of the earth and all people, princes and all iudges of the worlde:
12 Yong men and maidens, also olde men and children:
13 Let them prayse the Name of the Lord: for his Name onely is to be exalted, and his prayse aboue the earth and the heauens.
14 For he hath exalted the horne of his people, which is a prayse for all his Saintes, euen for the children of Israel, a people that is neere vnto him. Prayse ye the Lord.

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