With wonder, Lord, we see your works
With wonder, Lord, we see your works. Brian Foley* (1919-2000).
This hymn, based on Psalm 8, is one of fourteen by Foley in New Catholic Hymnal (1971). Like Foley’s other hymns, it has an appealing simplicity, which here over-rides the rhythmical unexpectedness (unusual for Foley) of the final line, which is one syllable short.
The original verse 1 had a repeated word rather than rhyme:
With wonder, Lord, we see your works,
We see the beauty you have made,
This earth, the skies, all things that are
In beauty made.
With the author’s permission, the compilers of HP altered line 2 to ‘We see your glory there displayed’, which is not so direct and simple but has the merit of using the...
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