English
O Worship the King
- Author
- Robert Grant
- Tune
- LYONS
- Composer
- Joseph Martin Kraus
- Copyright
- ✓ Public Domain Verified
Verse 1
O worship the King, all glorious above, O gratefully sing his power and his love; Our Shield and Defender, the Ancient of Days, Pavilioned in splendor, and girded with praise.
Verse 2
O tell of his might, O sing of his grace, Whose robe is the light, whose canopy space; His chariots of wrath the deep thunder-clouds form, And dark is his path on the wings of the storm.
Verse 3
Thy bountiful care what tongue can recite? It breathes in the air, it shines in the light; It streams from the hills, it descends to the plain, And sweetly distils in the dew and the rain.
Verse 4
Frail children of dust, and feeble as frail, In thee do we trust, nor find thee to fail; Thy mercies how tender, how firm to the end, Our Maker, Defender, Redeemer, and Friend!
Public Domain Information
- Text
- Public Domain
- Tune
- Not verified (melody not provided)
- Verified
- October 3, 2026
- Verification sources
- The Army and Navy Hymnal (Public Domain Archive)
Public Domain status verified for the listed text/source.
Rights & Sources
- Text Rights
- Public Domain The Army and Navy Hymnal (1920), hymn no. 21, scan page 49 (https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:The_Army_and_Navy_Hymnal.djvu/49). Credit as printed: Robert Grant, 1833. Text author: Robert Grant (1779–1838; dates from Wikidata Q2157350, linked from the Wikisource author page). Published in the United States before 1931 and the author died more than 70 years ago (1838): public domain.
- Tune Rights
- Not verified — not provided
- Translation Rights
- Not applicable (original-language text)
- Arrangement Rights
- No BibleSlide arrangement provided
- Recording Rights
- No recording provided
- Score / sheet music Rights
- No sheet music provided