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.