The sound of a hallelujah by the great creation sung.”
So God created music—the voices of land and sea,
And the song of the stars revolving in one vast harmony.
Out of the deep uprising, out from the ether sent,
The song of the destined ages thrilled through the firmament.
So the rivers among the valleys, the murmur of wind-swept hill,
The seas and the bird-thrilled woodlands utter their voices still;
Songs of stars and of waters, echoes of vale and shore—
The voice of primeval nature praising Him evermore.
And the instruments men have fashioned since time and the world were young,