Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal Revised
Date: 1882
Compiler: A I Hobbs et al
Publisher/Printer: Christian Publishing Co
First Line: Thou art O God the life and light
Topic: God/Creator
Writer: Thomas Moore
Composer: Lowell Mason
Meter: LM six lines
Tune: Admah
Hymn Number: 35
Page Number: 019, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsTHOU art, O God, the life and light
Of all the wondrous world we see;
Its glow by day, its smile by night,
Are but reflections caught from Thee;
Were'er we turn, Thy glories shine,
And all things fair and bright are Thine.
When day, with farewell beam, delays
Among the opening clouds of even,
And we can almost think we gaze,
Through opening vistas, into heav'n--
Those hues that mark the sun's decline,
So soft, so radiant, Lord, are Thine.
When night, with wings of starry gloom,
O'ershadows all the earth and skies.
Like some dark, beauteous bird, whose plume
Is sprkling with unnumber'd dyes--
That sacred gloom, those fires divine,
So grand, so countless, Lord, are Thine.
When youthful Spring around us breathes,
Thy Spirit warms her fragrant sigh;
And every flow'r that Summer wreathes
Is born beneath Thy kindling eye;
Were'er we turn, Thy glories shine,
And all things fair and bright are Thine.