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Creation Considerations

Tune: St Theodulph

(\'All glory, laud and honour\')

Psalm 104 v.16-28

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Chorus

O LORD, your works manifold

They cannot all be told

In wisdom have you made all

Earth of your riches full

 

Trees of the LORD full of sap

O\'er all the world\'s wide map

Great cedars tall of Lebanon

He planted every one - Chorus

 

There the birds do their nests make

Food to their young do take

As for the stork, the fir tree[s]

Her house, her dwelling be - Chorus

 

A refuge are the high hills

For the goats, they there still

And rocks refugee for conies

Rock-badger\'s abode is - Chorus

 

He appoints moon for seasons

All in His plans, reasons

The sun knows his going down

O\'er every country, town - Chorus

 

He makes darkness, it is night

Beasts of forests alight

They creep forth, and young lion[s]

Seek food from God, each one - Chorus

 

So daytime dawns, man goes forth

To his work, labour knows

Till evening falls, then day done

Cycle of employed ones - Chorus

 

Too in the great and vast sea[s]

Things innumerably

Live, they teeming and creeping

Small, great beasts, many things - Chorus

 

There got the ships and large beasts

Each plays therein, there feasts

These do all upon you wait

You feed them there not late - Chorus

 

They gather that which you give

You provide, so they live

You open to them you hand

They filled with good, sea, land - Chorus