Text: | When Morning Gilds The Skies |
Author: | Anon. |
Translator: | Caswall |
Translator: | Bridges |
Tune: | LAUDES DOMINI |
Composer: | Joseph Barnby |
1 When morning gilds the skies,
My heart, awaking, cries:
May Jesus Christ be praised!
When evening shadows fall,
I voice the pious call:
May Jesus Christ be praised!
2 When mirth for music longs,
This is my song of songs:
May Jesus Christ be praised!
God's holy house of prayer
Bids me its worship share:
May Jesus Christ be praised!
3 Does sadness fill my mind,
A solace here I find:
May Jesus Christ be praised!
Or fades my earthly bliss,
My comfort still is this:
May Jesus Christ be praised!
4 In heav'n's eternal bliss
The loveliest strain is this:
May Jesus Christ be praised!
Let earth and sea and sky
From depth to height reply:
May Jesus Christ be praised!
5 Be this, while life is mine,
My canticle divine:
May Jesus Christ be praised!
Be this th'eternal song
Of heaven's joyful throng:
May Jesus Christ be praised!
Amen.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | When morning gilds the skies |
Title: | When Morning Gilds The Skies |
Author: | Anon. (1838) |
Translator: | Caswall |
Translator: | Bridges |
Meter: | 6 6 6 6 6 6 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1930 |
Topic: | Morning; Processionals and Recessionals: Morning |
Source: | Tr.: Caswall Bridges, et al. |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | LAUDES DOMINI |
Composer: | Joseph Barnby (1868) |
Meter: | 6 6 6 6 6 6 |
Key: | C Major |