1 The rosy light is dawning
Upon the mountain's brow;
It is the Sabbath morning,
Arise and pay thy vow;
Lift up thy voice to heaven,
In sacred praise and prayer,
While unto thee is given
The light of life to share.
2 The landscape, lately shrouded
By evening's paler ray,
Smiles beauteous and unclouded
Before the eye of day;
So let our souls, benighted
Too long in folly's shade,
By thy kind smiles be lighted
To joys that never fade.
3 Oh! see those waters, streaming,
In crystal purity;
While earth, with verdure teeming,
Gives rapture to the eye;
Let rivers of salvation,
In larger currents flow,
Till every tribe and nation
Their healing virtues know.
Source: The Minstrel of Zion: a book of religious songs, accompanied with appropriate music, chiefly original #52
Hastings, Thomas, MUS. DOC., son of Dr. Seth Hastings, was born at Washington, Lichfield County, Connecticut, October 15, 1784. In 1786, his father moved to Clinton, Oneida Co., N. Y. There, amid rough frontier life, his opportunities for education were small; but at an early age he developed a taste for music, and began teaching it in 1806. Seeking a wider field, he went, in 1817, to Troy, then to Albany, and in 1823 to Utica, where he conducted a religious journal, in which he advocated his special views on church music. In 1832 he was called to New York to assume the charge of several Church Choirs, and there his last forty years were spent in great and increasing usefulness and repute. He died at New York, May 15, 1872. His aim was the… Go to person page >| First Line: | The rosy light is dawning |
| Author: | Thomas Hastings |
| Language: | English |
| Copyright: | Public Domain |
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