Hymns Supplied Through the Gracious Generosity
of the Cyber Hymnal Website
Words: John Wesley, Collection of Psalms and Hymns, 1741.
Music: "Mornington," arranged from Garrett Colley Wellesley, the Earl of Mornington, in Miller's David's Harp, 1805 |
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.
O let Thine orient beams
The night of sin disperse,
The mists of error and of vice
Which shade the universe.
How beauteous nature now:
How dark and sad before!
With joy we view the pleasing change,
And nature's God adore.
May we this life improve,
To mourn for errors past;
And live this short, revolving day
As if it were our last.
To God-the Father, Son,
And Spirit-One in Three,
Be glory; as it was, is now,
And shall forever be.
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