Dedication Hymn

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Title:     Dedication Hymn
Author: Nathaniel Parker Willis [More Titles by Willis]

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."

[The end]
Nathaniel Parker Willis's poem: Dedication Hymn

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