Thy Wisdom And Thy Might Appear

Thy wisdom and thy might appear

Author: Henry Van Dyke
Published in 3 hymnals

Representative Text

1 Thy wisdom and Thy might appear,
Eternal God, through every year;
From day to day, from hour to hour,
Thy works reveal self-ordered power.

2 We worship Thee whose will hath laid
Thy sovereign rule on all things made;
The faithful stars, the fruitful earth,
Obey Thy laws that gave them birth.

3 Yet Thou canst make a marvel shine
Amid these mighty laws of Thine;
As when Thy servant Moses came
And saw the bush with Thee aflame.

4 We turn aside and tread the ways
That lead through wonder up to praise;
Wherever Thou by man art found
The homely earth is holy ground.

5 If Thou hast formed us out of dust
Through ages long, in Thee we trust;
O grant us in our souls to see
The living flame that comes from Thee.



Source: The Cyber Hymnal #12857

Author: Henry Van Dyke

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First Line: Thy wisdom and thy might appear
Title: Thy Wisdom And Thy Might Appear
Author: Henry Van Dyke
Copyright: Public Domain

Tune

HOLY HILL (Pontius)


BROMLEY (Haydn)

The tune BROMLEY is usually credited to Jeremiah Clarke (1674-1707) but there is an authorship problem: the first published use of the tune and setting was Franz Josef Haydn's "O let me in th'accepted hour," a metrical setting of Psalm 69 in Improved Psalmody (1794). The earliest extant version attr…

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The Cyber Hymnal #12857

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