Creation (Billings)

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hymn; Billings included Creation in his final collection, The Continental Harmony,published in 1794.

414868CreationWilliam Billings

When I with pleasing wonder stand

And all my frame survey

Lord, 'tis thy work, I own thy hand

Thus built my humble clay

Our life contains a thousand springs,

And dies if one be gone.

Strange that a harp of thousand strings

Should keep in tune so long.

This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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