Light at Eventide

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Will there be light As in the night

Author: Thoro Harris
Tune: [Will there be light]
Published in 1 hymnal

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1 Will there be light
As in the night
I cross the narrow sea?
Will hope’s clear ray
Direct my way
And lov’d ones appear to me?

Refrain:
There shall be light
Peaceful and bright
To lead me safely home,
My bark to guide
At eventide
Across the ocean foam.

2 When I draw near
That land so dear
Will white-rob’d angels come,
Beckon and smile—
Friends lost a while—
To welcome me to my home? [Refrain]

3 God will send light
As nears my night,
My sinking soul to save;
His stars divine
Shall brightly shine
Far over the surging wave. [Refrain]

Source: Songs of Summerland #112

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Author: Thoro Harris

Born: March 31, 1874, Washington, DC. Died: March 27, 1955, Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Buried: International Order of Odd Fellows Cemetery, Eureka Springs, Arkansas. After attending college in Battle Creek, Michigan, Harris produced his first hymnal in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1902. He then moved to Chicago, Illinois at the invitation of Peter Bilhorn, and in 1932, to Eureka Springs, Arkansas. He composed and compiled a number of works, and was well known locally as he walked around with a canvas bag full of handbooks for sale. His works include: Light and Life Songs, with William Olmstead & William Kirkpatrick (Chicago, Illinois: S. K. J. Chesbro, 1904) Little Branches, with George J. Meyer & Howard E. Smith (Chicago, Illi… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Will there be light As in the night
Title:	Light at Eventide
Author:	Thoro Harris
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	There shall be light
Publication Date:	1943
Copyright:	This text may still be under copyright because it was published in 1943.