Text: | Ye golden lamps of heav'n! farewell |
Author: | Doddridge |
Tune: | MERTON |
Composer: | H. K. Oliver |
1 Ye golden lamps of heav’n! farewell,
With all your feeble light;
Farewell, thou ever-changing moon,
Pale empress of the night!
2 And thou refulgent orb of day,
In brighter flames array’d;
My soul, that springs beyond thy sphere
No more demands thine aid.
3 Ye stars are but the shining dust,
Of my divine abode;
The pavement of those heavenly courts,
Where I shall reign with God.
4 The Father of eternal light
Shall there His beams display;
Nor shall one moment’s darkness mix
With that unvaried day.
5 No more the drops of piercing grief,
Shall swell into my eyes;
Nor the meridian sun decline
Amid those brighter skies.
6 There all the millions of His saints
Shall in one song unite,
And each the bliss of all shall view,
With infinite delight.
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First Line: | Ye golden lamps of heav'n! farewell |
Author: | Doddridge |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1885 |
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Name: | MERTON |
Composer: | H. K. Oliver |