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<h2>O WORSHIP THE KING</h2>
<p align="center"><h3>&#8220;O Lord my God, You are very great; You are clothed with splendor and majesty.&#8221; Psalm 104:1-2</h3></p>
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<td><em>Words:</em> <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_g_r_grant_r.html" target="_blank">Robert Grant</a>, in <em>Christian Psalmody</em>, by <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_b_i_bickersteth_eh.html" target="_blank">Edward Henry Bickersteth</a>, 1833, alt.
<p><em>Music:</em> &#8220;Lyons,&#8221; attributed to <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_h_a_haydn_jm.html" target="_blank">Johann Michael Haydn</a> (1737-1806); arranged by William Gardner (1770-1858) in <em>Sacred Melodies</em>, 1815 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_l_lyons.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
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<li>&#8220;Hanover,&#8221; attributed to <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_c_r_croft_w.html" target="_blank">William Croft</a>, 1708 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_h_hanover.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
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<p>O worship the King, all glorious above,<br>
O gratefully sing His power and His love;<br>
Our Shield and Defender, the Ancient of Days,<br>
Pavilioned in splendor, and girded with praise.</p>
<p>O tell of His might, O sing of His grace,<br>
Whose robe is the light, Whose canopy space,<br>
His chariots of wrath the deep thunderclouds form,<br>
And dark is His path on the wings of the storm.</p>
<p>The earth with its store of wonders untold,<br>
Almighty, Thy power hath founded of old;<br>
Established it fast by a changeless decree,<br>
And round it hath cast, like a mantle, the sea.</p>
<p>Thy bountiful care, what tongue can recite?<br>
It breathes in the air, it shines in the light;<br>
It streams from the hills, it descends to the plain,<br>
And sweetly distills in the dew and the rain.</p>
<p>Frail children of dust, and feeble as frail,<br>
In Thee do we trust, nor find Thee to fail;<br>
Thy mercies how tender, how firm to the end,<br>
Our Maker, Defender, Redeemer, and Friend.</p>
<p>O measureless might! Ineffable love!<br>
While angels delight to worship Thee above,<br>
The humbler creation, though feeble their lays,<br>
With true adoration shall all sing Thy praise.</p>
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