Christ the wisdom of God. <br /> <br />Prov. 8:1,22-32. <br /> <br />Shall Wisdom cry aloud, <br />And not her speech be heard? <br />The voice of God's eternal Word, <br />Deserves it no regard? <br /> <br />"I was his chief delight, <br />His everlasting Son, <br />Before the first of all his works, <br />Creation, was begun. <br /> <br />["Before the flying clouds, <br />Before the solid land, <br />Before the fields, before the floods, <br />I dwelt at his right hand. <br /> <br />"When he adorned the skies, <br />And built them, I was there, <br />To order where the sun should rise, <br />And marshal every star. <br /> <br />"When he poured out the sea, <br />And spread the flowing deep, <br />I gave the flood a firm decree <br />In its own bounds to keep.] <br /> <br />"Upon the empty air <br />The earth was balanced well. <br />With joy I saw the mansion where <br />The sons of men should dwell. <br /> <br />"My busy thoughts at first <br />On their salvation ran, <br />Ere sin was born, or Adam's dust <br />Was fashioned to a man. <br /> <br />"Then come, receive my grace, <br />Ye children, and be wise; <br />Happy the man that keeps my ways; <br />The man that shuns them dies."<br /><br />Isaac Watts<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/hymn-92/
