Practical Guide to English Versification / With a Compendious Dictionary of Rhymes, an Examination / of Classical Measures, and Comments Upon Burlesque and / Comic Verse, Vers de Société, and Song-writing

by Tom Hood

On Earth, join all ye Creatures, to extol

Him first, him last, him midst, and without End!

Fairest of Stars, last in the Train of Night,

If better thou belong not to the Dawn,

Sure Pledge of Day, that crown'st the smiling Morn

With the bright Circlet, praise him in thy Sphere,

While Day arises, that sweet hour of Prime!

Thou Sun! of this great World both Eye and Soul,

Acknowledge him thy Creator, sound his Praise

In thy eternal Course, both when thou climb'st,