Fragment of a Hymn.

God of mercy without measure! God of all-embracing love! Show'ring in Thy gracious pleasure Countless blessings from above; Bounteous benefits bestowing In a kind, continuous course, Favour from Thee ever flowing, As a stream from ocean source.

Grateful praise my aspiration; Pardon my presumptuous pen; And accept my poor oblation, And forgive its feeble strain; Thou to whom such praise is given, Too divine for mortal ears, In the angel choirs of heaven And the music of the spheres.