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Hymn: Ye golden lamps of heaven farewell (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book

Date: 1865

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern

First Line: Ye golden lamps of heaven farewell

Topic: The Present and the Future/Life and Death

Writer: <no first name given> Doddridge

Composer:

Meter: CM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 1053

Page Number: 623, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Ye golden lamps of heaven, farewell,

With all your feeble light:

Farewell, thou ever-changing moon,

Pale empress of the night.



And thou, refulgent orb of day,

In brighter flames arrayed;

My soul, that springs beyond thy sphere,

No more demands thine aid.



Ye stars are but the shining dust

Of my divine abode,

The pavement of those heavenly courts

Where I shall reign with God.



The Father of eternal light

Shall there his beams display,

Nor shall none moment's darkness mix

With that unvaried day.



No more the drops of piercing grief

Shall swell into mine eyes;

Nor the meridian sun decline

Amid those brighter skies.



There all the millions of his saints

Shall in one song unite,

And each the bliss of all shall view

With infinite delight.