O Worship the King (HANOVER)

HANOVER, William Croft (1678-1727) Robert Grant (1779-1838)

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1 O worship the King all-glorious above,
O gratefully sing his power and his love:
Our shield and defender, the Ancient of
Days,
Pavilioned in splendour and girded with
praise.
4 Your bountiful care, what tongue can recite?
It breathes in the air, it shines in the light;
It streams from the hills, it descends to the
plain,
And sweetly distils in the dew and the rain.

2 O tell of his might and sing of his grace, 5 Frail children of dust, and feeble as frail,
whose robe is the light, whose canopy In you do we trust, nor find you to fail.
space. Your mercies, how tender, how firm to the
His chariots of wrath the deep end,
thunderclouds form, Our Maker, Defender, Redeemer, and
and dark is his path on the wings of the Friend.
storm.

3 The earth with its store of wonders untold,
Almighty, thy power hath founded of old;
Hath ‘stablished it fast by a changeless
decree,
And round it hath cast, like a mantle, the
sea.
6 O measureless Might, unchangeable Love,
Whom angels delight to worship above!
Your ransomed creation, with glory ablaze,
In true adoration shall sing to your praise.