Light of the World, We Hail Thee (EN 4240)

EN 4240 Light of the World, We Hail Thee

John.8.12

Versi Version 1

Light of the world, we hail Thee, flushing the eastern skies;

Never shall darkness veil Thee again from human eyes;

Too long, alas, withholden, now spread from shore to shore;

Thy light, so glad and golden, shall set on earth no more.

Light of the world, Thy beauty steals into every heart,

And glorifies with duty life’s poorest, humblest, part;

Thou robest in Thy splendor the simple ways of men,

And helpest them to render light back to Thee again.

Light of the world, before Thee our spirits prostrate fall;

We worship, we adore Thee, Thou Light, the Life of all;

With Thee is no forgetting of all Thine hand hath made;

Thy rising hath no setting, Thy sunshine hath no shade.

Light of the world, illumine this darkened earth of Thine,

Till everything that’s human be filled with what’s divine;

Till every tongue and nation, from sin’s dominion free,

Rise in the new creation which springs from love and Thee.