Hymns and Tunes 1886 59
God is the name my soul adores
Music: Isaac WattsTune: 41, 634, 56841, 634, 568
1God is the name my soul adores,
Almighty, high, Eternal One;
Both heaven and earth, with all their powers,
Confess the Infinite Unknown.
2Thy voice ordained the rolling spheres,
And bid the countless planets shine;
But nothing like thyself appears
Through all these spacious works of thine.
3Still restless nature dies and grows,
From change to change thy creatures run;
Thy being no succession knows,
And all thy vast designs are one.
- Music
- Isaac Watts
- Tune
- 41, 634, 568
- Meter
- 41, 634, 568
Public Domain
The verse
- Meter
- 8.8.10.8 · the hymnal prints 41, 634, 568
- Foot
- iambic (da-DUM) · 69% of beats fit
- Rhyme
- ABAB
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/ stressed · ˘ unstressed · ? not in the dictionary
Verse 1
God is the name my soul adores,/˘˘/˘/˘/8A
Almighty, high, Eternal One;˘/˘/˘/˘/8B
Both heaven and earth, with all their powers,//˘˘/˘/˘/˘10C
Confess the Infinite Unknown.˘/˘/˘˘˘/8D
Verse 2
Thy voice ordained the rolling spheres,//˘/˘/˘/8A
And bid the countless planets shine;˘/˘/˘/˘/8B
But nothing like thyself appears˘/˘///˘/8A
Through all these spacious works of thine.//˘/˘/˘/8B
Verse 3
Still restless nature dies and grows,//˘/˘/˘/8A
From change to change thy creatures run;˘/˘///˘/8B
Thy being no succession knows,//˘˘˘/˘/8A
And all thy vast designs are one.˘///˘/˘/8B
Counted by machine from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. It cannot hear emphasis or a poet’s licence, so treat it as a place to start reading, not the last word.