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Text:What glory gilds
Tune:ZERAH
Composer:Dr. L. Mason

120. What glory gilds

1 What glory gilds the sacred page!
Majestic, like the sun,
It gives a light to every age;
It gives, but borrows none.

2 The power that gave it still supplies
The gracious light and heat;
Its truths upon the nations rise;
They rise, but never set.

3 Lord, everlasting thanks be thine
For such a bright display,
As makes a world of darkness shine
With beams of heavenly day.

4 My soul rejoices to pursue
The steps of him I love,
Till glory breaks upon my view
In brighter worlds above.

Text Information
First Line: What glory gilds the sacred page!
Title: What glory gilds
Language: English
Publication Date: 1885
Notes: Public Domain.
Tune Information
Name: ZERAH
Composer: Dr. L. Mason
Notes: Public Domain.



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