Christ, whose glory fills the skies
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1
Christ, whose glory fills the skies,
Christ, the true, the only light,
Sun of righteousness, arise,
triumph over the shades of night.
Day-spring from on high, be near;
Daystar, in my heart appear.
2
Dark and cheerless is the morn
unaccompanied by thee.
Joyless is the day's return
till thy mercy's beams I see.
Till they inward light impart,
glad my eyes and warm my heart.
3
Visit, then, this soul of mine.
Pierce the gloom of sin and grief.
Fill me, Radiancy divine.
Scatter all my unbelief.
More and more thyself display,
shining to the perfect day.
#216 in Hymnal: A Worship Book
Words: Charles Wesley, Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1740
Tune: Charles F. Gounod, The Hymnary, 1872
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