Had planned to start posting a hymn again every Monday, but yesterday was a holiday, so I'm posting today. Our first day of school isn't going quite the way I'd planned (see www.homeschoolblogger.com/sweet2bhome for details) and we're getting a very late start on our day.

Actually, we'd have been starting our academics right about this time anyhow, because three of us had chiropractor appointments this morning, and we'd have just gotten home in the last half hour if things had gone as planned. But two of us our sick with a miserable cold, and since I'm one of them, things are moving very slowly at our house today.

Google found lyrics at this link, and you can also download midi files (piano, organ, bells) and a PDF of the piano music there, too.
http://www.hymnsite.com/lyrics/umh073.sht

073. O Worship the King

Text: Robert Grant, 1779-1838
Music: Attr. to Johann Michael Haydn, 1737-1806
Tune: LYONS, Meter: 10 10.11 11

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1.	O worship the King, all glorious above, 
	O gratefully sing God's power and God's love; 
	our Shield and Defender, the Ancient of Days, 
	pavilioned in splendor, and girded with praise.

2.	O tell of God's might, O sing of God's grace, 
	whose robe is the light, whose canopy space, 
	whose chariots of wrath the deep thunderclouds form, 
	and dark is God's path on the wings of the storm.

3.	The earth with its store of wonders untold, 
	Almighty, thy power hath founded of old; 
	hath stablished it fast by a changeless decree, 
	and round it hath cast, like a mantle, the sea.

4.	Thy bountiful care, what tongue can recite?
	It breathes in the air, it shines in the light; 
	it streams from the hills, it descends to the plain, 
	and sweetly distills in the dew and the rain.

5.	Frail children of dust, and feeble as frail, 
	in thee do we trust, nor find thee to fail; 
	thy mercies how tender, how firm to the end, 
	our Maker, Defender, Redeemer, and Friend.

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