A Student's Evening Hymn

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Through the creatures Thou hast made

Show the brightness of Thy glory,

Be eternal Truth displayed

In their substance transitory,

Till green Earth and Ocean hoary,

Massy rock and tender blade

Tell the same unending story —

“We are Truth in Form arrayed.”

[….]

Teach me so Thy works to read

That my faith,—new strength accruing,—

May from world to world proceed,

Wisdom’s fruitful search pursuing;

Till, thy truth my mind imbuing,

I proclaim the Eternal Creed,

Oft the glorious theme renewing

God our Lord is God indeed.

– from “A Student’s Evening Hymn” by James Clerk Maxwell, April 25 1853

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