Thou hast thy record in the monarch’s hall,

And on the waters of the far mid sea;

And where the mighty mountain-shadows fall,

The Alpine hamlet keeps a thought of thee:

Where’er, beneath some Oriental tree,

The Christian traveller rests—where’er the child

Looks upward from the English mother’s knee,

With earnest eyes in wondering reverence mild,

There art thou known—where’er the Book of light

Bears hope and healing, there, beyond all blight,