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Text:Light Breaking
Tune:MISSIONARY HYMN

182. Light Breaking

1 The morning light is breaking;
The darkness disappears;
The sons of earth are waking
To penitential tears:
Each breeze that sweeps the ocean
Brings tidings from afar
Of nations in commotion,
Prepared for Zion's war.

2 Blest river of salvation,
Pursue thy onward way;
Flow thou to every nation,
Nor in thy richness stay:
Stay not till all the lowly
Triumphant reach their home;
Stay not till all the holy
Proclaim, "The Lord is come!"

Text Information
First Line: The morning light is breaking
Title: Light Breaking
Language: English
Publication Date: 1879
Tune Information
Name: MISSIONARY HYMN
Meter: 7s & 6s
Key: F Major or modal



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