Text: | Light of the World, We Hail Thee |
Author: | John S B Monsell, 1811-1875 |
Tune: | SALVE DOMINE |
Composer: | Lawrence W Watson, 1860-1927 |
1 Light of the world, we hail Thee,
Flushing the eastern skies;
Never shall darkness veil Thee
Again from human eyes;
Too long, alas, withholden,
Now spread from shore to shore;
Thy light, so glad and golden,
Shall set on earth no more.
2 Light of the world, Thy beauty
Steals into every heart,
And glorifies with duty
Life's poorest, humblest part;
Thou robest in Thy splendor
The simplest ways of men,
And helpest them to render
Light back to Thee again.
3 Light of the world, illumine
This darkened earth of Thine,
Till everything that's human
Be filled with what's divine;
Till every tongue and nation,
From sin's dominion free,
Rise in the new creation
Which springs from love and Thee.
AMEN.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Light of the world, we hail Thee |
Title: | Light of the World, We Hail Thee |
Author: | John S B Monsell, 1811-1875 |
Meter: | 7 6 7 6 D |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1999 |
Topic: | Worship of the Son |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | SALVE DOMINE |
Composer: | Lawrence W Watson, 1860-1927 |
Meter: | 7 6 7 6 D |
Key: | G Major or modal |