Was the first temple built to God;
His fiat laid the corner-stone,
And heaved its pillars one by one.
2 He hung its starry roof on high—
The broad, illimitable sky;
He spread its pavement, green and bright,
And curtained it with morning light.
3 The mountains in their places stood,
The sea—the sky—and “all was good;”
And when its first few praises rang,