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479 Chester

Words: Philip Doddridge, 1755

Music: William Billings, 1770

Meter: Long Meter (8,8,8,8)

Let the high heav’ns your songs invite,
These spacious fields of brilliant light,
Where sun and moon and planets roll,
And stars that glow from pole to pole.

Sun, moon, and stars convey Thy praise,
’Round the whole earth and never stand,
So when Thy truth began its race,
It touched and glanced on ev’ry hand.

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