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Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: Light of those whose dreary dwelling (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Psalmist

Date: 1848

Compiler: S W Leonard and A D Fillmore

Publisher/Printer: S W Leonard

First Line: Light of those whose dreary dwelling

Topic: <no topic given>

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

Composer: Thomas Hastings

Meter:

Tune: Light of Those

Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>

Page Number: 028, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Light of those whose dreary dwelling

Borders on the shades of death!

Rise on us, thyself revealing,

Rise and chase the clouds beneath.

Thou, of life and light creator!

In our deepest darkness rise;

Scatter all the night of nature,

Pour the day upon our eyes.