There Cometh No Night

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We watch for the morning, the beautiful day

Author: E. E. Hewitt
Tune: [We watch for the morning, the beautiful day] (Ackley)
Published in 3 hymnals

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1 We watch for the morning, the beautiful day
That shines in the Land of Delight;
The shadows will flee from its radiance away;
O listen! there cometh no night.
(there cometh no night.)

Chorus:
There cometh no night, (no night,)
Where Jesus is dwelling
There cometh no night. (no night, no night.)

2 The roses bloom on in that wonderful land,
Untouched by the fingers of blight;
And earth's dreary sorrows we'll there understand,
Rejoicing - there cometh no night.
(there cometh no night.) [Chorus]

3 The King in His beauty we there shall behold;
The Lamb is its glory and light;
We'll join the grand chorus of rapture untold,
Forever - there cometh no night.
(there cometh no night.) [Chorus]

Source: The New Praiseworthy: for the Church and Sunday School #51

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Author: E. E. Hewitt

Pseudonym: Lidie H. Edmunds. Eliza Edmunds Hewitt was born in Philadelphia 28 June 1851. She was educated in the public schools and after graduation from high school became a teacher. However, she developed a spinal malady which cut short her career and made her a shut-in for many years. During her convalescence, she studied English literature. She felt a need to be useful to her church and began writing poems for the primary department. she went on to teach Sunday school, take an active part in the Philadelphia Elementary Union and become Superintendent of the primary department of Calvin Presbyterian Church. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (… Go to person page >

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Text Information

First Line:	We watch for the morning, the beautiful day
Title:	There Cometh No Night
Author:	E. E. Hewitt
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	There cometh no night
Copyright:	Public Domain