All holy, everliving One

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All holy, everliving One

Author: Thomas Hill
Published in 5 hymnals

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1 All holy, everlasting One!
With uncreated splendor bright!
Darkness may blot from heaven the sun,
Thou art my everlasting light.

2 Let every star withhold its ray;
Clouds hide the earth and sky from sight;
Fearless I still pursue my way
Toward thee, my everlasting light.

3 Thou art the only source of day;
Forgetting thee alone is night;
All things for which we hope or pray
Flow from thine everlasting light.

4 Still nearer thee my soul would rise;
Thus she attains her highest flight,
And, as the eagle sunward flies,
Seeks thee, her everlasting light.

Source: Laudes Domini: a selection of spiritual songs ancient and modern #291

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Author: Thomas Hill

Hill, Thomas, D.D., LL.D., son of English parents, was born at New Brunswick, New Jersey, Jan. 7, 1818. At the age of 20 he left the apothecary's shop in which he was employed, and began the study of Latin and Greek. He graduated at Harvard, 1843, and at the Cambridge Divinity School, 1845. His first charge was as pastor of the Unitarian Church at Waltham, Massachusetts; his second, that of President of Antioch College, Ohio, 1859; his third that of President of Harvard College, and his fourth that of pastor of "the First Parish in Portland, Maine, May 18, 1873." Dr. Hill has published numerous sermons, addresses, reviews, &c, and also a work— Geometry and Faith, 1849. Putnam (to whose Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith we are indebte… Go to person page >

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