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 7. Ye floods and ocean billows! Ye storms and winter snow! Ye days of cloudless beauty! Hoar frost and summer glow! Ye groves that wave in spring, And glorious forests, sing

8. First let the birds, with painted plumage gay, Exalt their great Creator's praise, and say

9. Then let the beasts of earth with varying strain, Join in Creation's Hymn, and cry again

10. Here let the mountains thunder forth, sonorous, There, let the valleys sing in gentler chorus,

11. Thou jubilant abyss of ocean, cry Ye tracts of earth and continents, reply

12. To, Who all Creation made, The frequent hymn be duly paid:

13. This is the strain, the eternal strain, the of all things loves: This is the song, the heav'nly song, that Himself approves: