Text: | Christ, Whose Glory Fills the Skies |
Author: | Charles Wesley |
Tune: | RATISBON |
1 Christ, whose glory fills the skies,
Christ, the true, the only Light,
Sun of Righteousness, arise,
Triumph o’er the shades of night;
Dayspring from on high, be near;
Day-star, in my heart appear.
2 Dark and cheerless is the morn
Unaccompanied by Thee;
Joyless is the day’s return
Till Thy mercy’s beams I see,
Till they inward light impart,
Cheer my eyes and warm my heart.
3 Visit then this soul of mine;
Pierce the gloom of sin and grief;
Fill me, Radiancy divine;
Scatter all my unbelief;
More and more Thyself display,
Shining to the perfect day.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Christ, whose glory fills the skies |
Title: | Christ, Whose Glory Fills the Skies |
Author: | Charles Wesley (1740) |
Meter: | 7.7.7.7.7.7 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1990 |
Scripture: | ; ; |
Topic: | Jesus Christ: Praise; Morning and Opening Hymns |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | RATISBON |
Meter: | 7.7.7.7.7.7 |
Key: | D Major |
Source: | Freylinghousen's Gesangbuch, 1704; Rev. in Werner's Choralbuch, 1815 Old Church Psalmody, 1847, as in |