“These, as they change, Almighty Father, these
Are but the varied God. The rolling year
Is full of thee”—
unless perhaps in that more Christian strain where, hearing the bleating on the hills and the lowings in the vale, he breaks forth—
“For the Great Shepherd reigns,
And his unsuffering Kingdom yet will come.”
The prevailing spirit of the Hymn, as of most of his other addresses to the Deity, is that of optimism and the reign of universal benevolence:—
“I cannot go
Where Universal Love smiles not around,
Sustaining all yon orbs, and all their suns,