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Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: The morning light returns (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal Revised

Date: 1882

Compiler: A I Hobbs et al

Publisher/Printer: Christian Publishing Co

First Line: The morning light returns

Topic: Morning Hymns

Writer: A Hayden

Composer: Beethoven

Meter: SM

Tune: Gorton

Hymn Number: 438

Page Number: 150, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

THE morning light returns,

The sun begins to shine;

Now let our souls, in haste, arise,

To run the race divine.



We praise the Father's love,

Who kept us through the night;

O may His kindness be our song,

His pleasure our delight!



While passing through this day,

Lord, we implore Thy care,

To guide us on the heav'nly way,

And guard from every snare.



And when our life shall close,

O may it be in peace!

May we lie down in sweet repose,

And wake in endless bliss!