Text: | A Morning-Hymn |
1 We lift our hearts to thee,
O Day-star from on high!
The sun itself is but thy shade,
Yet cheers both earth and sky.
2 O let thy orient beams
The night of sin disperse,
The mists of error, and of vice,
Which shade the universe!
3 How beauteous nature now!
How dark and sad before!
With joy we view the pleasing change,
And nature’s God adore.
4 O may no gloomy crime
Pollute the rising day:
Or Jesu’s blood, like evening dew,
Wash all our stains away.
5 May we this life improve,
To mourn for errors past,
And live this short revolving day,
As if it were our last.
6 To God the Father, Son,
And Spirit, one and three,
Be glory, as it was, is now,
And shall for ever be.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | We lift our hearts to thee |
Title: | A Morning-Hymn |
Meter: | S. M. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1790 |
Topic: | Morning and Evening |