FOR THOSE THAT TRAVEL BY LAND OR BY WATER.
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, Alleluia! First let the birds, with painted plumage
Amen.
gay, Exalt their great Creator's praise, and Alleluia! Then let the beasts of earth, with varying strain,
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Join in creation's hymn, and cry again,
Alleluia!
530 ALLELUIA! Song of gladness, Voice of everlasting Alleluia! Sound the sweetest Heard among the choirs on high, Hymning God's blissful mansion Day and night incessantly. Alleluia! Church victorious, Thou may'st lift the joyful strain. There let the valleys sing in gentler Alleluia! Songs of triumph Well befit the ransom'd train. Faint and feeble are our praises While in exile we remain. Ye tracts of earth and continents, reply, Alleluia! Songs of gladness
Here let the mountains thunder forth Alleluia!
sonorous,
Alleluia!
chorus, Thou jubilant abyss of ocean, cry,
Alleluia!
Alleluia
Suit not always souls forlorn. Alleluia! Sounds of sadness ' Midst our joyful strains are borne; For in this dark world of sorrow
We with tears our sins must mour Praises with our prayers uniting, Hear us, blessèd Trinity; Bring us to thy blissful presence, There the Paschal Lamb to see, There to thee our Alleluia
To God, who all creation made, The frequent hymn be duly paid
Alleluia!
This is the strain, the eternal strain, the Lord of all things loves: Alleluia! This is the song, the heavenly song, that Christ Himself approves: Alleluia!
Wherefore we sing, both heart and voice Alleluia! awaking, children's voices echo, answer making,
And
Alleluia!
Now from all men be outpour'd Alleluia to the Lord;
With Alleluia evermore
We confess, proclaim, adore thee, We bow the knee, we fall before thee, Thy love henceforth shall be our song: The cross meanwhile we bear, The crown ere long to wear. Hallelujah!
Thy reign extend world without end, Let praise from all to thee ascend.
The Son and Spirit we adore. Praise be done to the Three in One, Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
529 PRAISE the Lord through every
nation;
His holy arm hath wrought salvation; Exalt him on his Father's throne: Praise your King, ye Christian legions, Who now prepares in heavenly regions Unfailing mansions for his own: With voice and minstrelsy Extol his Majesty:
Hallelujah!
His praise shall sound all nature round, Where'er the race of man is found. God with God dominion sharing, And Man with man our image bearing. Gentiles and Jews to him are given: Praise your Saviour, ransom'd sinners, Of hfe, through him, immortal winners; Nor longer heirs of earth, but heaven. O beatific sight,
To view his face in light: Hallelujah!
And, while we see, transform'd to be From bliss to bliss eternally. Jesu, Lord, our Captain glorious, O'er sin, and death, and hell victorious, Wisdom and might to thee belong:
Singing everlastingly. Amen. For those that Travel by Land, or by Water. 531 How are thy servants bless'd
O Lord; How sure is their defence! Eternal wisdom is their guide; Their help, omnipotence. In foreign realms, and lands remote, Supported by thy care,
Through burning climes they pass unhurt,
And breathe in tainted air. From all their griefs and dangers, Lord Thy mercy sets them free, While in the confidence of prayer Their souls take hold on thee. When by the dreadful tempest borne High on the broken wave, They know thou art not slow to hear, Nor impotent to save. The storm is laid, the winds retire, Obedient to thy will;
The sea, that roar'd at thy command, At thy command is still.
In midst of dangers, fears, and deaths, Thy goodness I'll adore;
And praise thee for thy mercies past, And humbly hope for more.
My life, while thou preserv'st my life, Thy sacrifice shall be;
And death, when death shall be my lot Shall join my soul to thee.( c)