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I: When the sun with cheerful beams / Smiles upon a low ring sky, / Soon its aspect soften'd seems, / And a rainbow meets the eye:
While the sky remains serene / This bright arch is never seen.
II: Thus the Lord's supporting pow'r / Brightest to his saints appears, / When affliction's threat'ning hour / Fills their sky with clouds and fears:
He can wonders then perform, / Paint a rainbow on the storm.
III: All their graces doubly shine / When their troubles press them sore; / And the promises divine / Give them joys unknown before:
As the colours of the bow / To the cloud their brightness owe.
IV: Favour'd John a rainbow saw, / Circling round a throne above; / Hence the saints a pledge may draw / Of unchanging cov'nant love:
Clouds awhile may intervene, / But the bow will still be seen.