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Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: You shining orbs whose brilliant light (FL)

Hymnal: The Sacred Melodeon

Date: 1848

Compiler: A S Hayden

Publisher/Printer: A S Hayden

First Line: You shining orbs whose brilliant light

Topic: <no topic given>

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

Composer: Edson

Meter: LM six lines

Tune: Greenfield

Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>

Page Number: 126, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

You shining orbs, whose brilliant light

Dispenses beauty through the night,

And cheers the lonely wand'rer's way,

Along your mighty courses ride

O'er fields of space extended wide,

And in your ancient circuits play.