Fountain Of Mercy, God Of Love

 

"You visit the earth and saturate it with water;
You greatly enrich it; the river of God is full of water;
You provide them with grain when You have so prepared the earth."
(Psalm 65:9)

The Veteran In A New Field

(1865)

Winslow Homer

(1836-1910)

American painter

Metropolitan Museum Of Art

Fountain of mercy, God of love,

Whose gifts all creatures share,

The rolling seasons as they move

Proclaim Thy constant care.

When in the bosom of the earth

The sower hid the grain,

The goodness marked its secret birth,

And sent the early rain.

The spring's sweet influence, Lord, was Thine,

The seasons knew Thy call;

Thou mad'st the summer sun to shine,

The summers dews to fall.

These various mercies from above

Matured the swelling grain;

And now the harvest crowns Thy love,

And plenty fills this plain.

O ne'er  may our forgetful hearts

O'erlook  Thy bounteous care,

But what our Father's hand imparts

Still own in praise and prayer.

The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost

To God whom we adore,

Be glory, as it was, is now,

And shall be evermore.

"Fountain Of Mercy, God Of Love"
(1811)
Alice L. Flowerdew
(1759-1830)
English poetess and hymn writer