That Which Outshines Each Star

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How beautiful the setting sun

Author: Eliza Lee Follen
Tune: [How beautiful the setting sun!]
Published in 20 hymnals

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1 How beautiful the setting sun!
The clouds, how bright and gay!
The stars appearing one by one,
How beautiful are they!
And when the moon climbs up the sky,
And sheds her gentle light,
And hangs her crystal lamp on high,
How beautiful is night!
How beautiful is night!

2 And can it be, I am possessed
Of something brighter far?
Glows there, within this little breast,
That which outshines each star?
Yes, should the sun and stars turn pale,
The mountains melt away,
This flame within shall never fail,
But live in endless day,
But live in endless day.

Source: The Morning Stars Sang Together: a book of religious songs for Sunday schools and the home circle #29

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Author: Eliza Lee Follen

Follen, Eliza Lee, née Cabot, a well-known Unitarian writer, daughter of Samuel Cabot, born at Boston, August 15, 1787, and married, in 1828, to Professor Charles Follen, who perished on board the "Lexington," which was burnt on Long Island Sound, Jan. 13,1840. Mrs. Follen died at Brookline, Mass., 1860. She was a voluminous writer. Her Poems were first published at Boston (Crosby & Co.), 1839, and whilst she was in England she issued another volume for children's use, entitled The Lark and the Linnet, in 1854. Both volumes also contain some translations from the German, and versions of a few Psalms. Her best known hymns are:— 1. How sweet to be allowed to pray. Resignation. Appeared in the Christian Disciple, Sept., 1818,… Go to person page >

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