Song-bloom :: :: University of Virginia Library

By thy perfect sea,
Lord deliver me!

By thy strength of hand
Over sea and land,

Over hills and plains;
By thy love that reigns:

By thy stars and storms,
By thy sun that warms:

By thy snow that shields
Seeds and fallow fields:

By thy breath that speaks
In the sweet spring-weeks:

By the summer rose,
Where thy beauty glows:

By thy tenderness,
By thy soft caress:

By thine outspread wings,
Wherethrough thunder sings:

By thy glories poured
Over mount and sward:

By thy wondrous might,
Shown in starry night:

By thy mountain-lakes,
By thy white snow-flakes:

By thy lonely seas,
By thy rosefed breeze:

By thy rains and clouds,
By thy white mist-shrouds:

By thy heaven of blue,
Which thy love smiles through:

By thy tender heart,
By thy lightning dart:

By thy wondrous world
In thy love-robe furled:

By thy majesty,
God, deliver me!