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

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

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.



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.