Dedication Hymn.
The perfect world by Adam trod, Was the first temple - built by God - His fiat laid the corner stone, And heav'd its pillars, one by one. He hung its starry roof on high - The broad illimitable sky; He spread its pavement, green and bright, And curtain'd it with morning light. The mountains in their places stood - The sea - the sky - and "all was good;" And, when its first pure praises rang, The "morning stars together sang." Lord! 'tis not ours to make the sea And earth and sky a house for thee; But in thy sight our off'ring stands - A humbler temple, "made with hands."
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