And now the Lord to Noah spake,

And bade him from the ark

Go forth, and stand upon the earth,

And all his family take.

The waters from the earth had fled,

The ground was clean and dry,

No threatening billows form'd around,

No clouds were in the sky.

So Noah left the ark, and came

Forth to the open air,

And all the beasts and creeping things,

And fowls, were with him there.

He brought them out to fill the earth.

To multiply and live;

That they might magnify His name,

Who every good doth give.

Behold the wondrous hand of God,

How matchless is His skill,

Who works in heaven and on the earth,

The counsel of His will.

How great, how awful, and how just

Was that Almighty word,

Which, for the sinfulness of men,

Did call the dreadful flood.

And while the world was perishing,

'Tis pleasing to observe,

The loving-kindness of the Lord,

Who did the good preserve.

He saved them in the ark, while fell

The overflowing rain;

And when the flood was dried away,

He brought them forth again.