The Seasons of the Year

With songs and honors sounding loud,

Address the Lord on high;

Over the heavens he spreads his cloud,

And waters vail the sky.

He sends his showers of blessing down,

To cheer the plains below;

He makes the grass the mountains crown,

And corn in valleys grow.

His steady counsels change the face

Of the declining year;

He bids the sun cut short his race,

And wintry days appear.

His hoary frost, his fleecy snow,

Descend and clothe the ground;

The liquid streams forbear to flow,

In icy fetters bound.

He sends his word and melts the snow,

The fields no longer mourn;

He calls the warmer gales to blow,

And bids the spring return.

The changing wind, the flying cloud,

Obey his mighty Word:

With songs and honors sounding loud,

Praise ye the sovereign Lord.