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When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view, I’m lost In wonder, love, and praise. Unnumber’d blessings on my head Thy tender care bestow’d, Before my infant heart conceived From whom those blessings flow’d. Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ; Nor is the least a grateful heart, To taste those gifts with joy. Through every period of my life Thy goodness I’ll pursue; And, after death, in distant worlds, The glorious theme renew.
When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view, I’m lost In wonder, love, and praise. Unnumber’d blessings on my head Thy tender care bestow’d, Before my infant heart conceived From whom those blessings flow’d. Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ; Nor is the least a grateful heart, To taste those gifts with joy. Through every period of my life Thy goodness I’ll pursue; And, after death, in distant worlds, The glorious theme renew.
Approximate author period: c. 1695 AD · renaissance
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- Joseph Addison
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- Approximate author period: c. 1695 AD · renaissance
author lifetime midpoint (1672–1719)
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 598 · printed citation: Addison · subject: THANKFULNESS
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