4960. Oh How Fair That Morning Broke

1. Oh how fair that morning broke,
When in Eden man awoke!
Beast and bird and insect bright
Reveled in the gladsome light;
God looked down from Heav’n above,
All was life and joy and love.

2. Ah! the doleful change when sin
Darkly, subtly entered in!
War and pestilence and dearth
Mar and sadden God’s fair earth;
Human sorrow fills the air;
Death is reigning everywhere.

3. Yet rejoice; for God on high
Hath not left His world to die!
God’s dear Son, with dying breath,
Broke the power of sin and death;
Christ the Tempter overthrew,
Christ is making all things new.

4. Lord, in me be sin subdued,
So may I with heart renewed,
Fight the fight and run the race,
Work in my appointed place,
Waiting for the glad new birth
Of Thy perfect Heav’n and earth.

Text Information
First Line: Oh how fair that morning broke
Title: Oh How Fair That Morning Broke
Author: John Ellerton (1880)
Meter: 77.77.77
Language: English
Source: This hymn was written March 13, 1880, for Mrs. Brock's 1881 Children's Hymn Book.
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: MORNING (Monk)
Composer: William Henry Monk (1871)
Meter: 77.77.77
Incipit: 55133 21336 54323
Key: D Major
Source: Scottish Hymnal, 1871
Copyright: Public Domain



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