…stand every morning to thank and praise the Lord.
1 Chronicles 23:30
Words: Johann S. Patzke, as the opening hymn to his 1769 cantata Abels Tod (Abel’s Death). Published in Patzke’s Musikalische Gedichte (Magdeburg & Leipzig, Germany, 1780) (Lobt den Herrn! die Morgensonne). Translation appeared, with translator unnamed, in the American Unitarian Cheshire Association’s Collection, 1844, number 692. It is in 4 st., st. i., ii., being fairly close trs. of st. i., ii., of the German, while st. iii., iv. are practically original English stanzas
(Julian, page 886).
Music: St. Sylvester John B. Dykes, 1862 (🔊 pdf nwc).
Alternate Tune:
Praise the Lord, when blushing morning
Wakes the blossoms fresh with dew;
Praise Him when revived creation
Beams with beauties fair and new.
Praise the Lord, and may His blessing
Guide us in the way of truth;
Keep our feet from paths of error,
Make us holy in our youth.
Praise the Lord when early breezes
Come so fragrant from the flowers;
Praise thou willow by the brook-side,
Praise, ye birds among the bowers.