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Hymn: Thou art O God the life and light (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal

Date: 1871

Compiler: Under direction of the Christian Hymn-Book Committee

Publisher/Printer: Bosworth Chase & Hall

First Line: Thou art O God the life and light

Topic: The New Life/Aspirations

Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>

Composer: T Hastings

Meter: 10s and 11s

Tune: Soon and Forever

Hymn Number: 621

Page Number: 227, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Thou art, O God, the life and light

Of all the wondrous world we see;

Its glow by day, its smile by night,

Are but reflections caught from thee;

Where'er we turn, thy glories shine,

And all things fair and bright are thine.



When day, with farewell beam, delays

Among the opening clouds of even,

And we can almost think we gaze,

Through opening vistas, into heaven-

Those hues that mark the sun's decline,

So soft, so radiant, Lord, are thine.