 | Thomas Wright - 1914 - 382 страници
...The Great, the Holy, and the High ! Earth from afar has heard Thy fame, And worms have learnt to lisp Thy name ; But O, the glories of Thy mind Leave all our soaring thoughts behind." There the hymn should have ended, for the conclusion is both weak and unnecessary.... | |
 | Brian A. Wren - 2000 - 440 страници
...shining thrones around Fall worshipping, and spread the ground. In a later stanza, Isaac Watts writes: Earth from afar has heard the fame, And worms have learnt to lisp thy name; "Worms" (probably then pronounced to rhyme with "storms") was a seventeenth-century... | |
 | 1913 - 850 страници
...The Great, the Holy and the High. Earth from afar has heard thy fame, And worms have learned to lisn e any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, [the doctr soaring thonghts behind. flod is in heaven, but man below ; Be short onr tunes, our words be few ;... | |
 | 1854 - 296 страници
...Ke doon je pee bah ge me goo ? 4 Earth from afar hath heard thy fame, And worms have learn'd to lisp thy name ; But, O ! the glories of thy mind Leave all our soaring thoughts behind ! 5 God is in heaven and men below : Be short our tunes, our words be few !... | |
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Lord, what shall earth and ashes do? We would adore our Maker too! From sin and dust, to thee we cry, The Great, the Holy, and the High. 
