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<h2>THE SPACIOUS FIRMAMENT ON HIGH</h2>
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<p align="center"><h3>“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands.” Psalm 19:1</h3></p>
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<td><img src="./hymns/hymns_img/img_a_d_addison_j.jpg" alt="Joseph Addison (1672-1719)" width="132.666666666667" height="216.666666666667"></td>
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<td><em>Words:</em> <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_a_d_addison_j.html" target="_blank">Joseph Addison</a>, in <em>The Spectator</em> (London, England), August 23, 1712. It followed an essay on the proper means of strengthening and confirming faith in the mind of man, with this introduction:
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<p>As such a bold and sublime manner of Thinking furnished out very noble Matter for an Ode, the Reader may see it wrought into the following one.</p>
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<p><em>Music:</em> “Creation,” <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_h_a_haydn_fj.html" target="_blank">Franz Josef Haydn</a>, 1798 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_c_creation.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td> </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>“London (Addison’s),” J. Sheeles, circa 1720 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_l_o_london.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td> </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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<td><img src="./hymns/hymns_img/img_h_a_haydn_fj.jpg" alt="Franz Josef Haydn (1732-1809)" width="131.333333333333" height="189.333333333333"></td>
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<p>The spacious firmament on high,<br>
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With all the blue ethereal sky,<br>
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And spangled heavens, a shining frame<br>
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Their great Original proclaim.<br>
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Th’unwearied sun, from day to day,<br>
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Does his Creator’s powers display,<br>
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And publishes to every land<br>
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The work of an Almighty Hand.</p>
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<p>Soon as the evening shades prevail<br>
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The moon takes up the wondrous tale,<br>
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And nightly to the listening earth<br>
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Repeats the story of her birth;<br>
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While all the stars that round her burn<br>
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And all the planets in their turn,<br>
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Confirm the tidings as they roll,<br>
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And spread the truth from pole to pole.</p>
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<p>What though in solemn silence all<br>
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Move round the dark terrestrial ball?<br>
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What though no real voice nor sound<br>
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Amid the radiant orbs be found?<br>
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In reason’s ear they all rejoice,<br>
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And utter forth a glorious voice,<br>
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Forever singing as they shine,<br>
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“The hand that made us is divine.”</p>
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