God, Thou art clothed with light

Verse 1

God, you are clothed with light, as with a garment fair, and in your holy sight the saints your beauty wear; the heavens and all therein express the glory of your holiness.

Verse 2

Give me a robe of light that I may walk with you; bright as the stars are bright, pure as their light is pure; Whose texture sin shall never stain, but ever undefiled remain.

Verse 3

But can a sinner dare, in rags, and sore ashamed, lift up to God the prayer which now my lips have framed, while glowing seraphs fold their wings, and pour their sinless offerings?

Verse 4

O Christ, I lift mine eyes; your love for me I own; in your great sacrifice remains my hope alone; the robe is mine, my soul to dress, of everlasting righteousness.