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HYMN.
FOR THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION AT HARVARD COLLEGE,
September 7, 1836.
Give praise to the God of our fathers! give praise!
At the shrine where they worshiped devoutly adore;
Kneel down, as they knelt in their perilous days,
His goodness to bless, and his favor implore.
At the shrine where they worshiped devoutly adore;
Kneel down, as they knelt in their perilous days,
His goodness to bless, and his favor implore.
For “Christ and the Church” they resisted and fled,
His cross for their banner, his word for their guide;
On a new world the broad light of Freedom they shed,
And poured through the wilderness Truth's living tide.
His cross for their banner, his word for their guide;
On a new world the broad light of Freedom they shed,
And poured through the wilderness Truth's living tide.
Then rose the high temple, the home of the soul,
And the proud hall of Science, the strength of the state,
That Religion and Letters might join to control
The hearts of the young, and the toils of the great.
And the proud hall of Science, the strength of the state,
That Religion and Letters might join to control
The hearts of the young, and the toils of the great.
We praise thee, O God, for the days that are gone;
We surrender the future in faith to thy hand;
O, cloud not the hope of our new-risen dawn,
O, pour the full sunlight of day on our land!
We surrender the future in faith to thy hand;
O, cloud not the hope of our new-risen dawn,
O, pour the full sunlight of day on our land!
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