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59. Wisdom! Jehovah's First Delight | C.M. |
| by Lady Campbell |
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| 1 | Wisdom! Jehovah's first delight, |
| The everlasting Son! |
| Before the first of all His works, |
| Creation, was begun; |
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| 2 | Before the skies and watery clouds, |
| Before the solid land; |
| Before the fields, before the floods, |
| Thou wast at His right hand! |
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| 3 | When He adorned the arch of heaven |
| And built it, Thou wast there, |
| To order where the sun should rise, |
| And marshal every star. |
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| 4 | When ocean's bed was measured out, |
| And spread the hoary deep, |
| Thou gav'st the flood a firm decree |
| In its own bounds to keep. |
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| 5 | When, hung amid the empty space, |
| The earth was balanced well, |
| With joy Thou saw'st the mansion where |
| The sons of men should dwell. |
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| 6 | Jesus! from everlasting days |
| Thy thoughts upon us ran; |
| Ere sin was known, ere Adam's dust |
| Was fashioned into man. |
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