Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: Thou art O God the life and light
Topic: God/In Creation
Writer: <no first name given> Moore
Composer:
Meter: LM six lines
Tune:
Hymn Number: 49
Page Number: 031, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsThou 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.
When youthful spring around us breathes,
Thy Spirit warms her fragrant sigh;
And every flower that summer wreathes
Is born beneath thy kindling eye;
Where'er we turn, thy glories shine,
And all things fair and bright are thine.