The Day Without a Cloud

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The clouds of grief over shadow The sky of time and sence

Author: A. H. Ackley
Tune: [The clouds of grief overshadow]
Published in 5 hymnals

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1 The clouds of grief o’ershadow
The sky of time and sense,
The path grows dark before us,
And fills us with suspense,
But tho’ life’s fairest morning
Be covered with a shroud,
We’ll see in heaven’s dawning
The day without a cloud.

Refrain:
The day without a cloud,
The day without a cloud;
Sometime, somewhere, we too,
Shall share Gods’ perfect day, without a cloud.

2 The grief that overtakes us
Shall one day pass away,
The troubles that distress us
Shall last but for a day;
Our soul so worn and weary,
With perfect life endowed,
Shall greet in God’s great morning
The day without a cloud. [Refrain]

3 The faces not forgotten
Shall smile as oft before,
And voices long since silenced
Shall greet us as of yore,
And with the ransomed chorus
We’ll sing of Christ aloud,
Thanks be to God who gave us
The day without a cloud. [Refrain]

Source: Favorites Number 4: A Collection of Gospel Songs #73

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Author: A. H. Ackley

Alfred Henry Ackley was born 21 January 1887 in Spring Hill, Pennsylvania. He was the youngest son of Stanley Frank Ackley and the younger brother of B. D. Ackley. His father taught him music and he also studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He graduated from Westminster Theological Seminary in Maryland and was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1914. He served churches in Pennsylvania and California. He also worked with the Billy Sunday and Homer Rodeheaver evangelist team and for Homer Rodeheaver's publishing company. He wrote around 1500 hymns. He died 3 July 1960 in Los Angeles. Dianne Shapiro (from ackleygenealogy.com by Ed Ackley and Allen C. Ackley) Go to person page >

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First Line:	The clouds of grief over shadow The sky of time and sence
Title:	The Day Without a Cloud
Author:	A. H. Ackley
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	The day without a cloud
Publication Date:	1928
Copyright:	This text is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before 1929.