Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: Like morning when her early breeze
Topic: The Gospel/Spirit of Adoption
Writer: <no first name given> Moore
Composer:
Meter: LM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 409
Page Number: 250, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsLike morning -- when her early breeze
Breaks up the surface of the seas,
That, in their furrows, dark with night,
Her hand may sow the seeds of light --
Thy grace can send its breathings o'er
The spirit dark and lost before;
And, freshening all its' depths, prepare
For truth divine to enter there.
Till David touched his sacred lyre,
In silence lay the unbreathing wire;
But when he swept its chords along,
Then angels stooped to hear the song.
So sleeps the soul, till thou, O Lord,
Shall deign to touch its lifeless chord;
Till, waked by thee, its breath shall rise
In music worthy of the skies.