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Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: Like morning when her early breeze (FL)

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

Lyics

Like 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.