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Text:O Love that lights the eastern sky
Author:Rev. Louis F. Benson
Tune:VITTEL WOODS
Composer:Bradley Keeler

433. O Love that lights the eastern sky

1 O Love that lights the eastern sky
And shrouds the evening rest,
From out whose hand the swallows fly,
Within whose heart they nest!

2 O life, content beneath the blue!
Or, if God will, the gray,
Then tranquil yet, till light breaks through
To melt the mist away!

3 O death that sails so close to shore
At twilight! From my gate
I scan the darkening sea once more,
And for its message wait.

4 What lies beyond the afterglow?
To life's new dawn how far?
As if an answer, spoken low,
Love lights the evening star.

Amen.

Text Information
First Line: O Love that lights the eastern sky
Author: Rev. Louis F. Benson (1923)
Meter: C. M.
Publication Date: 1950
Topic: The Life Everlasting; Eternal Life; Funeral Services (3 more...)
Copyright: Used by permission of Mrs. Robert F. Jefferys.
Tune Information
Name: VITTEL WOODS
Composer: Bradley Keeler (1924)
Meter: C. M.
Incipit: 53333 32461 71322
Key: G Major
Copyright: Used by permission of Mrs. Robert F. Jefferys.



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