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Hymn: O thou pure light of souls that love (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal Revised

Date: 1882

Compiler: A I Hobbs et al

Publisher/Printer: Christian Publishing Co

First Line: O thou pure light of souls that love

Topic: Closing Hymns/General

Writer: <no first name given> Breviary

Composer: I Woodbury

Meter: LM

Tune: Blessing

Hymn Number: 251

Page Number: 093, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

O THOU pure light of souls that love,

True joy of every human breast,

Sower of life's immortal seed,

Our Saviour and Redeemer blest!



Be Thou our guide, be Thou our goal,

Be Thou our pathway to the skies;

Our joy when sorrow fills the soul;

In death our everlasting prize.