The world’s foundations first were laid,
Come visit every pious mind;
Come pour Thy joys on human kind;
From sin and sorrow set us free,
And make Thy temples worthy Thee.”
George Wither, the Puritan poet, who died in 1667, wrote hymns and songs of the Church; and amongst translations of the Lord’s Prayer, perhaps there never was one so compact, and so closely adhering to the original, as his:—
“Our Father, which in heaven art,
We sanctify Thy name;
Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done,
In heaven and earth the same: