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Text:Light is dawning ’mong the hills
Translator:John Brownlie

18. Light is dawning ’mong the hills

I
Light is dawning ’mong the hills,
Light of light Thy beams display,
All the darkness chase away,
Light that dawned upon our ills.

II
Dark the day the Cross was raised
By the hands of cruel men;
Great Thy load of sorrow then;
Angel hosts were sore amazed.

III
Dark the world while in the tomb,
Lone in death the Saviour lay,
Till the stone was rolled away,
And His Rising quelled the gloom.

IV
Fadeless now, O Light of light,
Glory of the Father, Thou,
Shine upon Thy people now,
Rise upon their darkest night.

Text Information
First Line: Light is dawning 'mong the hills
Title: Light is dawning ’mong the hills
Translator: John Brownlie (1907)
Meter: 7,7,7,7
Language: English
Publication Date: 1907
Notes: Public Domain.
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