Day of Life

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Lo, the day, the day of life!

Translator: Elizabeth R. Charles
Tune: CHARLES (Parker)
Published in 7 hymnals

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1. Lo, the day, the day of life!
Day of unimagined light,
Day when death itself shall die,
And there shall be no more night!

2. See the King desired for ages,
By the just expected long,
Long implored, at length He hasteth,
Cometh with salvation strong.

3. O how past all utterance happy,
Sweet and joyful it will be,
When they who, unseen, have loved Him,
Jesus face to face shall see.

4. Blessèd then, earth’s patient mourners,
Who for Christ have toiled and died,
Driven by the world’s rough pressure
In those mansions to abide!

5. What will be the bliss and rapture
None can dream, and none can tell,
There to reign among the angels,
In that heavenly home to dwell.

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #3877

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Translator: Elizabeth R. Charles

Charles, Elizabeth, née Rundle, is the author of numerous and very popular works intended to popularize the history of early Christian life in Great Britain; of Luther and his times; of Wesley and his work; the struggles of English civil wars; and kindred subjects as embodied in the Chronicles of the Schönherg-Cotta Family, the Diary of Kitty Trevelyan, &c, was born at Tavistock, Devonshire, Her father was John Rundle, M.P., and her husband, Andrew Paton Charles, Barrister-at-Law. Mrs. Charles has made some valuable contributions to hymnology, including original hymns and translations from the Latin and German. These were given in her:— (1) The Voice of Christian Life in Song; or, Hymns and Hymn-writers of Many Lands and Ages, 1858; (2… Go to person page >

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