POEMS. LOVE BREATHING THANKS AND PRAISE. THE FIRST PART. ETERNAL God! this worm lifts up the head; And looks to thee, by thee encouraged. Cheer'd by thy bounty, it would speak thy praise, "'Whose wondrous love hath measured all my days : If thou vouchsafe to make a worm rejoice, Give him a thankful praising heart and voice. Thy shining glory blessed angels see: Angels must sing thy highest praise, not we But if thy warming beams cause worms to speak, Their baser p~rt will n_ot the concert break. When time was yet no measure, when the sun Its rapid motion had not yet begun ; When heaven, and earth, and sea were yet unframed, Angels and men, and all things else unnamed, When there did nothing else exist but thee, Thou wast the same, and still the same wilt be. When there was none to know or praise thy name, Thou wast in perfect blessedness the same. The Father, Word and Spirit, One in Three, Trinity doth with unity agree. Th' eternal life, that quickens all that lives: 'rhe .soul of souls; ~he light .which all light gives B
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