Text: | When Morning Gilds the Sky |
Translator: | Edward Caswall |
Tune: | LAUDES DOMINI |
Composer: | Joseph Barnby |
1 When morning gilds the sky,
our hearts awaking cry:
May Jesus Christ be praised!
In all our work and prayer
we ask his loving care:
May Jesus Christ be praised!
2 To God, the Word on high,
the hosts of angels cry:
May Jesus Christ be praised!
Let mortals too upraise
their voice in hymns of praise:
May Jesus Christ be praised!
3 Let earth's wide circle round
in joyful notes resound:
May Jesus Christ be praised!
Let air and sea and sky
from depth to height reply:
May Jesus Christ be praised!
4 Be this, when day is past,
of all our thoughts the last:
May Jesus Christ be praised!
The night becomes as day
when from the heart we say:
May Jesus Christ be praised!
5 Then let us join to sing
to Christ, our loving King:
May Jesus Christ be praised!
Be this the eternal song
through all the ages long:
May Jesus Christ be praised!
Text Information | |
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First Line: | When morning gilds the sky |
Title: | When Morning Gilds the Sky |
Translator: | Edward Caswall (1858, alt.) |
Meter: | 666 D |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1989 |
Topic: | The Church in the World |
Source: | German, c. 1800 |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | LAUDES DOMINI |
Composer: | Joseph Barnby (1868) |
Meter: | 666 D |
Key: | B♭ Major |