Christ My Song - 1181

The light is sweet, and pleasant is
(Thomas Kelly/Johannes Thomas Rüegg)

The light is sweet, and pleasant is.

"Truly the light is sweet." (Ecclesiastes 11,7)

1. The light is sweet, and pleasant is
  the sun to mortal sight;
but fairer light we know than this,
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2. a sun that sheds a purer ray,
  that gives to heav'n its light;
a sun that yields perpetual day,
  that goes not down by night;

3.  a sun that shines upon the way
  that leads to joys above;
that cheers the pilgrim with its ray,
  and warms his heart with love.

4. This sun is ours; it gilds with light
  th' eternal vault of heav'n;
'tis faintly viewed by mortal sight,
  as yet no more is giv'n.

5. But soon, we hope, a day will be,
  when clouds shall be no more;
this glorious sun we then shall see
  in beauty, not before.

6. Till then it yields sufficient light
  to shew the heavenly way;
and now and then it seems more bright,
  and darts a warmer ray.

7. Fair is the lot that 's cast for them,
  on whom this sun has ris'n;
this sun illumines with its beam
  the darkness of a pris'n.

Thomas Kelly, Hymns on various passages of Scripture, ca. 1853, Hymn 658.

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