“Bless the LORD, O my soul!” (Psa 104:1)
Lo! how the stretched heavens,
how refulgent luminaries, how fertile fields,
how towering woods, how roaring seas,
how ranging brutes, how labouring men,
how flaming seraphs,
unite their force to awaken my soul,
to tune my heart to the high praises of her Redeemer!
Let me meet my God, my Christ, in every view.
In every sound let me hear his voice.
In every form let me discern how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty!
Nor let creation’s lower plains detain my heart:
let new-covenant relations to my unbounded All,
let redemption through his blood, fix all my thoughts, enrapture all my inward powers;
that I may sing anthems, all on fire,
to Him who loved me, and gave Himself for me.
– Notes by John Brown of Haddington on Psalm 104