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Sing to Yahweh a new song! Sing to Yahweh, all the earth.

Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice. Let the sea roar, and its fullness!

Make a joyful noise to Yahweh, all the earth! Burst out and sing for joy, yes, sing praises!

Let the sea roar with its fullness; the world, and those who dwell therein.

Let the rivers clap their hands. Let the mountains sing for joy together.

Now at least the moon is full, and I walk alone, which is best by night, if not by day always.

The dear privacy and retirement and solitude which winter makes possible!

To the sick, indeed, nature is sick, but to the well, a fountain of health.

I have found a dream of beauty at which one might look all one's life and sigh.

Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.

Only spread a fern frond over a man's head and worldly cares are cast out, and freedom and beauty and peace come in.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.

Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.

Thousands of God's wild blessings will search you and soak you as if you were sponge, and the big days will go by uncounted.

Standing here in the deep, brooding silence all the wilderness seems motionless, as if the work of creation were done.

Death, like birth, is a mystery of nature; the one a compounding of elements, the other a resolution into the same.

For all the toll the desert takes of a man it gives compensations, deep breaths, deep sleep, and the communion of the stars.

If trees could speak, hundreds of them would say that I had had these soul-emotions under them.

Instead of an awkward silence, broken by attempts at wit or dull common-places, mine is that undisturbed silence of the heart which alone is perfect eloquence.

Yahweh, how many are your works! In wisdom, you have made them all. The earth is full of your riches.

I will sing to Yahweh as long as I live. I will sing praise to my God while I have any being.

Let my meditation be sweet to him. I will rejoice in Yahweh.

The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork.

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, Yahweh, my rock, and my redeemer.

Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.