Divisase la aurora

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1 Divísase la aurora,
La noche da lugar;
Conoce el hombre y llora
Su antigua ceguedad;
Cada aura que al mar crespa
Trae nuevas de la lid,
De gente que se apresta
Por Cristo a combatir.

2 Rocíos abundantes
De gracia celestial,
Dan perspectivas grandes
Y nuevas, sin cesar.
Cada oración que sube
Respuesta plena trae;
De céfiros y nubes
El bien precioso cae.

3 Las gentes ya se inclinan
Al Dios de nuestro amor;
Sus maravillas creen
Y gozan su favor;
Al llamamiento acude
De míseros tropel;
Altares falsos se hunden
Entre un sonor "amén."



Source: Culto Cristiano #145

Translator: Thomas M. Westrup

Thomas Martin Westrup moved with his family from London to Mexico when he was fifteen years old. He translated hundreds of hymns and, along with his son, Enrique, published a three-volume hymnal Incienso Christiano. Dianne Shapiro from Celebremos su Gloria (Colombia/Illinois: Libros Alianza/Celebration), 1992 Go to person page >

Author: Samuel Francis Smith

Smith, Samuel Francis, D.D., was born in Boston, U.S.A., Oct. 21, 1808, and graduated in arts at Harvard, and in theology at Andover. He entered the Baptist ministry in 1832, and became the same year editor of the Baptist Missionary Magazine. He also contributed to the Encyclopaedia Americana. From 1834 to 1842 he was pastor at Waterville, Maine, and Professor of Modern Languages in Waterville College. In 1842 he removed to Newton, Massachusetts, where he remained until 1854, when he became the editor of the publications of the Baptist Missionary Union. With Baron Stow he prepared the Baptist collection known as The Psalmist, published in 1843, to which he contributed several hymns. The Psalmist is the most creditable and influential of… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Divisase la aurora
English Title: The morning light is breaking
Author: Samuel Francis Smith
Translator: Thomas M. Westrup
Meter: 7.6.7.6 D
Language: Spanish
Copyright: Public Domain

Tune

WEBB

George J. Webb (b. Rushmore Lodge, near Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, 1803; d. Orange, NJ, 1887) composed WEBB (also known as MORNING LIGHT) on a voyage from England to the United States. The tune was published in The Odeon, a collection of secular music compiled by Webb and Lowell Mason (PHH 96) i…

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