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Bright, Beautiful Morning

Bright, beautiful morning, Fair, glorious day

Author: Lanta Wilson Smith
Tune: [Bright, beautiful morning]
Published in 2 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 Bright, beautiful morning!
Fair, glorious day!
Thy first radiant dawning
Still brightens our way.
Glad hymns of rejoicing
Exultant, we sing,
While earth’s fairest blossoms
A tribute we bring.

Refrain:
Bright, beautiful morning!
Fair, glorious day!
Bright, beautiful morning!
Fair, glorious day!

2 To Him who for sinners His precious life gave;
To Him who hath conquered
Sin, death, and the grave.
The cross where He suffered
On Calvary’s brow,
With roses and lilies
Is beautiful now. [Refrain]

3 The tomb where they laid Him,
With glory is bright;
He burst the dark prison,
And filled it with light.
So ev’ry glad Easter
Our praises we sing!
All hail to our Conqueror!
Hail Jesus our King! [Refrain]

Source: The Finest of the Wheat No. 2 #160

Author: Lanta Wilson Smith

Lanta Wilson Smith was born July 19, 1856 at Castine, Maine, and died October 19, 1939 at Taunton, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of a Methodist minister, William J. Wilson, and his wife Sedelia Follett. Her father belonged to the Maine, and later the East Maine Conferences from 1846 until 1866, when he with his family traveled in a covered wagon to the west, where he served as minister in Nebraska and Dakota. Later he returned to New England and founded out his sixty-four years in the ministry at an appointment in Hingham, Massachusetts. From her early childhood Lanta sang and played the organ in church and Sunday school wherever her father was located. When seventeen she attended Bucksport Seminary, Maine, where she received som… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Bright, beautiful morning, Fair, glorious day
Title: Bright, Beautiful Morning
Author: Lanta Wilson Smith
Language: English
Refrain First Line: Bright, beautiful morning
Copyright: Public Domain

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Finest of the Wheat Male Chorus #46

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The Finest of the Wheat No. 2 #160

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