With Songs and Honours, Sounding Loud by Isaac Watts, 1719 ELLACOMBE—Gesangbuch, Wurttemberg, 1784 With Songs and Honours, Sounding Loud 1 With songs and honours, sounding loud, Address the Lord on high; Over the heavens he sprinkles his cloud, And waters veil the sky. 2 He sends his showers of blessings down, To cheer the plains below; He makes the grass the mountains crown, And corn in the valleys grow. 3 His steady counsels change the face Of the declining year; He bids the sun cut short