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"I will now turn aside and see this great sight. " -- Exod. III: 3.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.