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Text:When morning gilds the skies
Translator:Rev. Edward Caswall
Tune:LAUDES DOMINI
Composer:Joseph Barnby

3. When morning gilds the skies

1 When morning gilds the skies,
My heart awaking cries
May Jesus Christ be praised:
Alike at work and prayer
To Jesus I repair;
May Jesus Christ be praised!

2 Does sadness fill my mind?
A solace here I find,
May Jesus Christ be praised:
Or fades my earthly bliss?
My comfort still is this,
May Jesus Christ be praised!

3 Ye nations of mankind,
In this your concord find,
May Jesus Christ be praised:
Let all the earth around
Ring joyous with the sound,
May Jesus Christ be praised!

4 Be this, while life is mine,
My canticle divine,
May Jesus Christ be praised:
Be this the eternal song,
Through all the ages long,
May Jesus Christ be praised!

Amen.

Text Information
First Line: When morning gilds the skies
Translator: Rev. Edward Caswall (1853)
Meter: 6. 6. 6. 6. 6. 6.
Publication Date: 1950
Topic: Adoration; Christ: Praise to Christ; Christ: Presence, His Living (8 more...)
Source: German, c. 1800
Tune Information
Name: LAUDES DOMINI
Composer: Joseph Barnby (1868)
Meter: 6. 6. 6. 6. 6. 6.
Key: C Major



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