The Light Is For Thee

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The night is far spent, and the day is at hand; The morning is glimmering over the land

Author: Jessie Brown Pounds
Published in 3 hymnals

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1 The night is far spent and the day is at hand,
The morning is glimmering over the land;
Its glory is shining on mountain and sea,—
Awaken, O sleeper, the light is for thee!

Refrain:
The light is for thee, the light is for thee,
Awaken, O sleeper, the light is for thee,
Its glory is shining on mountain and sea—
Awaken, O sleeper, the light is for thee.

2 The wearisome night of the ages was long,
When shadowing darkness gave shelter to wrong,
But Jesus, our Sun, has arisen indeed,
The morning has come, and mankind shall be freed. [Refrain]

3 The throne of the tyrant is shattered at last,
The day of his haughty oppression is past,
Awaken! Spread quickly the word, “Men are free!”
Awaken, O sleeper, the light is for thee. [Refrain]

Source: Hymns for Today: for Sunday Schools, Young People's Societies, The Church, The Home, Community Welfare Associations, and Patriotic Meetings #294

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Author: Jessie Brown Pounds

Jessie Brown Pounds was born in Hiram, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland on 31 August 1861. She was not in good health when she was a child so she was taught at home. She began to write verses for the Cleveland newspapers and religious weeklies when she was fifteen. After an editor of a collection of her verses noted that some of them would be well suited for church or Sunday School hymns, J. H. Fillmore wrote to her asking her to write some hymns for a book he was publishing. She then regularly wrote hymns for Fillmore Brothers. She worked as an editor with Standard Publishing Company in Cincinnati from 1885 to 1896, when she married Rev. John E. Pounds, who at that time was a pastor of the Central Christian Church in Indianapolis. A memorab… Go to person page >

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First Line:	The night is far spent, and the day is at hand; The morning is glimmering over the land
Title:	The Light Is For Thee
Author:	Jessie Brown Pounds
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	The light is for thee, the light is for thee
Copyright:	Public Domain