Let every heart rejoice and sing;
Let choral anthems rise;
Ye aged men and children bring
To God your sacrifice.
He bids the sun to rise and set;
In heav’n His pow’r is known;
And earth, subdued to Him, shall yet
Bow low before His throne.
For He is good, the LORD is good,
And kind are all His ways;
With songs and honors sounding loud,
The Lord Jehovah praise.
While the rocks and the rills,
While the vales and the hills
A glorious anthem raise,
Let each prolong the grateful song
And the God of our fathers praise.
– Henry S. Washburne (1842); based on Psalm 148