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Text: | When Morning Gilds the Skies |
Translator (and others): | E. Caswall |
Tune: | LAUDES DOMINI |
Composer: | Sir Joseph Barnby |
Composer (desc.): | Reginald Sparshatt Thatcher |
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 The night becomes as day
when from the heart we say,
"May Jesus Christ be praised!"
The pow'rs of darkness fear
when this sweet chant they hear:
"May Jesus Christ be praised!"
3 Ye nations of mankind
in this your concord find:
"May Jesus Christ be praised!
Let all the earth around
ring joyous with the sound:
"May Jesus Christ be praised!"
4 To God, the Word on High,
the hosts of angels cry,
"May Jesus Christ be praised!"
Let mortals, too, upraise
their voice in hymns of praise:
"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, when day is past,
of all our thoughts the last:
May Jesus Christ be praised!
The night becomes as day
when from the heart we say:
May Jesus Christ be praised!
5 In heav'n's eternal bliss
the loveliest strain is this:
"May Jesus Christ be praised!"
Let air and sea and sky
from depth to height reply:
"May Jesus Christ be praised!"
6 Be this, while life is mine,
my canticle divine,
"May Jesus Christ be praised!"
Be this th'eternal song
through all the ages long:
"May Jesus Christ be praised!"
Text Information | |
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First Line: | When morning gilds the skies |
Title: | When Morning Gilds the Skies |
Translator (and others): | E. Caswall (1849) |
Meter: | 66.6.66.6 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1985 |
Topic: | Hymns with Descants |
Source: | Beim' Freuhen Morgenlicht, anon. German, 18th century |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | LAUDES DOMINI |
Composer: | Sir Joseph Barnby (1868) |
Composer (desc.): | Reginald Sparshatt Thatcher |
Meter: | 66.6.66.6 |
Key: | B♭ Major |