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137 | The Hymnbook#138 | 139 |
Text: | Light of the World, We Hail Thee |
Author: | John S. B. Monsell |
Tune: | SALVE DOMINE |
Composer: | Lawrence W. Watson |
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 simple ways of men,
And helpest them to render
Light back to Thee again.
3 Light of the world, before Thee
Our spirits prostrate fall;
We worship, we adore Thee,
Thou Light, the Life of all;
With Thee is no forgetting
Of all Thy hand hath made;
Thy rising hath no setting
Thy sunshine hath no shade.
4 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 (1863) |
Meter: | 7. 6. 7. 6. D. |
Publication Date: | 1955 |
Scripture: | ; ; |
Topic: | Christ: Adoration and Praise; Christ: Light; Missions(2 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | SALVE DOMINE |
Composer: | Lawrence W. Watson (1909) |
Meter: | 7. 6. 7. 6. D. |
Key: | G Major |
Copyright: | Music used by permission of G. R. D. Watson. |