Honour’d by all the nations round,
Honour’d by Kings of every clime.
Blest be our God for these fair days,
These happy days that rise again!
O may his glorious name and praise
Fill all the earth! Amen, amen.
[22] By adapted, is here meant, partly, that the accented syllables in the verse coincide with the accented notes of the tune.
MIDNIGHT DEVOTION.
WRITTEN IN THE GREAT STORM, 1822.
When the storm’s increasing roar,