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Isaac Watts - Hymn 14
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The creation of the world. 

Gen. 1 

"Now let a spacious world arise,"
Said the Creator Lord:
At once th` obedient earth and skies
Rose at his sovereign word.

[Dark was the deep; the waters lay
Confused, and drowned the land:
He called the light; the new-born day
Attends on his command.

He bids the clouds ascend on high;
The clouds ascend, and bear
A wat`ry treasure to the sky,
And float on softer air.

The liquid element below
Was gathered by his hand;
The rolling seas together flow,
And leave the solid land.

With herbs and plants, a flowery birth,
The naked globe he crowned,
Ere there was rain to bless the earth,
Or sun to warm the ground.

Then he adorned the upper skies;
Behold the sun appears;
The moon and stars in order rise
To make our months and years.

Out of the deep th` almighty King.
Did vital beings frame,
The painted fowls of every wing,
And fish of every name.]

He gave the lion and the worm
At once their wondrous birth;
And grazing beasts of various form
Rose from the teeming earth.

Adam was framed of equal clay,
Though sovereign of the rest
Designed for nobler ends than they,
With God`s own image blest.

Thus glorious in the Maker`s eye
The young creation stood;
He saw the building from on high,
His word pronounced it good.

Lord, while the frame of nature stands,
Thy praise shall fill my tongue;
But the new world of grace demands
A more exalted song.
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