Dayspring of eternity

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(one verse introduction)

Dayspring of eternity!
Hide no more your radiant dawning!
Light from light's exhaustless sea,
Shine on us afresh this morning!
And dispel with glorious might
All our night.

Let your mercies' morning dew
Rouse our conscience from its blindness:
Gladden life's dry plains anew
With the rivers of your kindness;
Water daily us your flock
From the rock.

Let the glow of love destroy
Cold obedience faintly given,
Wake our hearts to love and joy
With the flushing eastern heaven;
Let us truly rise ere yet
Life has set.

Through this dark and tearful place
Never be your light denied us.
O you glorious Sun of grace,
To the world of gladness guide us,
When to joys that never end
We ascend!

 

 

 

Words: Christian Knorr von Rosenroth (17thC), trans. Catherine Winkworth (19thC)
Music: Morgenglanz der Ewigkeit, Johann Rudolf Ahle (17thC), arr. E. Barsabe (21stC)
Sequence: Cathouse Pandemonium, Ltd