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Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: On this blest day a brighter scene (FL)

Hymnal: Christian Psalms and Hymns

Date: 1839

Compiler: Walter Scott and Silas Leonard

Publisher/Printer: A S Tilden

First Line: On this blest day a brighter scene

Topic: <no topic given>

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

Composer:

Meter: CM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 248

Page Number: 126, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

ON this blest day a brighter scene

Of glory was displayed,

By Christ, our risen Lord, than when

The universe was made.



He rises, who our souls hath bought,

With grief and pain extreme;

'Twas great to speak the world from nought,

'Twas greater to redeem.