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Text:When Morning Gilds the Skies
Translator:Edward Caswall
Tune:LAUDES DOMINI
Composer:Sir Joseph Barnby

487. When Morning Gilds the Skies

1 When morning gilds the skies,
My heart awaking cries:
May Jesus Christ be praised!
Alike at work and prayer
To Jesus I repair:
May Jesus Christ be praised!

2 Does sadness fill my mind?
A solace here I find:
May Jesus Christ be praised!
Or fades my earthly bliss?
My comfort still is this:
May Jesus Christ be praised!

3 Let earth's wide circle round
In joyful notes resound:
May Jesus Christ be praised!
Let air and sea and sky
From depth to height reply:
May Jesus Christ be praised!

4 Be this, while life is mine,
My canticle divine:
May Jesus Christ be praised!
Be this the eternal song
Through all the ages long:
May Jesus Christ be praised!

Text Information
First Line: When morning gilds the skies
Title: When Morning Gilds the Skies
Translator: Edward Caswall (1853, 1858; alt.)
Meter: 6.6.6 D
Language: English
Publication Date: 1990
Topic: Jesus Christ: Praise; Morning and Opening Hymns
Source: German hymn, c. 1800
Tune Information
Name: LAUDES DOMINI
Composer: Sir Joseph Barnby (1868)
Meter: 6.6.6 D
Key: B♭ Major



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