But O! Our feeble strains of praise,
How short of thee they fall!
Let angels stronger voices raise,
To hymn the Lord of all:
Thou challengest the loftiest song
Of that celestial host;
Yet still thy majesty they wrong,
When they exalt it most.
But O! our feeble strains of praise
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Blessed be thy glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.”—[Nehemiah] ix. 5. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 225.
Publishing: Public Domain