“The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun. Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.” – Psalm lxxiv. 16, 17.
Thou art, O God, the life and light
Of all this wond’rous world we see;
Its glow by day, its smile by night,
Are but reflections caught from Thee.
Where’er we turn, thy glories shine,
And all things fair and bright are Thine!
When day, with farewell beam, delays
Along the op’ning clouds of even,
And we can almost think we gaze
Through golden vistas into Heaven –
Those hues that make the sun’s decline
So soft, so radiant, Lord! are Thine.
When night, with wings of starry gloom,
O’ershadows all the earth and skies,
Like some dark, beauteous bird, whose plume
Is sparkling with unnumber’d eyes –
That sacred gloom, those fires divine,
So grand, so countless, Lord! are Thine.
When youthful Spring around us breathes
Thy Spirit warms her fragrant sigh;
And every flower the Summer wreathes
Is born beneath that kindling eye.
Where’er we turn, Thy glories shine,
And all things fair and bright are Thine!
Перевод на русский язык
Из цикла «Духовные песни». Тебя мы славим
Твой день и Твоя ночь; Ты уготовал светила
и солнце; Ты установил все пределы земли, лето
и зиму Ты учредил.
(Псалом 74, стихи 16, 17).
