PSALM 147. Second Part. (L. M.) Summer and Winter.
A Song for Great Britian.
I
O Britain, praise thy mighty God,
And make his honours known abroad;
He bid the ocean round thee flow;
Not bars of brass could guard thee so.
II
Thy children are secure and blest;
Thy shores have peace, thy cities rest;
He feeds thy sons with finest wheat,
And adds his blessing to their meat.
III
Thy changing seasons he ordains,
Thine early and thy later rains.
His flakes of snow like wool he sends,
And thus the springing corn defends.
IV
With hoary frost he strews the ground;
His hail descends with clattering sound:
Where is the man so vainly bold
That dares defy his dreadful cold?
V
He bids the southern breezes blow,
The ice dissolves, the waters flow:
But he hath nobler works and ways
To call the Britons to his praise.
VI
To all the isle his laws are shown,
His gospel thro' the nation known;
He hath not thus reveal'd his word
To every land: Praise ye the Lord.
