Father! Thy wonders do not singly stand

Father! Thy wonders do not singly stand. Jones Very* (1813-1880).  The first eight lines of this hymn come from Very’s Essays and Poems (1839), a volume that was published with the encouragement of Ralph Waldo Emerson*. It was entitled ‘The Spirit Land’, and was a poem of fourteen lines, one of a series of poems in that form and in that metre:  Father! Thy wonders do not singly stand, Nor far removed where feet have seldom strayed; Around us ever lies the enchanted land In marvels rich to thine own sons displayed; In finding thee are all things round us found; In losing thee are all things lost beside; Ears have we but in vain strange voices sound, And to our eyes the vision is denied; We...

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