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
LyicsYe 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.