Morning

Verse 1

We lift our hearts to Thee, O Day-Star from on high! The sun itself is but Thy shade, Yet cheers both earth and sky.

Verse 2

O let Thy rising beams The night of sin disperse; The mists of error and of vice Which shade the universe.

Verse 3

How beauteous nature now! How dark and sad before! With joy we view the pleasing change, And nature’s God adore.

Verse 4

O may no gloomy crime Pollute the rising day; May Jesus’ blood, like morning dew, Wash all our stains away.

Verse 5

May we this life improve, To mourn for errors past; And live this short revolving day As if it were our last.