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Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: Light of those whose dreary dwelling (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Psalmist

Date: 1850

Compiler: Silas W Leonard and A D Fillmore

Publisher/Printer: S W Leonard

First Line: Light of those whose dreary dwelling

Topic: <no topic given>

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

Composer: Thomas Hastings

Meter: 8s and 7s

Tune: Light of Those

Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>

Page Number: 028, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Light of those whose dreary dwell-ing
Borders on the shades of death!
Rise on us, thy-self re-veal-ing,
Rise, and chase the clouds beneath
Thou, of life and light cre-a-tore, 
In our deep-est dark-ness rise;
Scatter all the night of nat-ure, 
Pour the day up-on our eyes.