CHRIST, WHOSE GLORY FILLS THE SKIES
"Unto you that fear My Name shall the Sun of Righteousness arise with
healing in His wings." Malachi 4:2
Words: Charles Wesley, Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 1740; original
title: "A Morning Hymn."
Music: "Ratisbon," J.G. Werner's Choralbuch zu den neuen
protestantischen Gesangbüchern, Leipzig, Germany, 1815; harmony by
William Henry Havergal, 1861.
Alternate tune: * "Day-Star," Samuel Sebastian Wesley, 1872.
Christ, Whose glory fills the skies,
Christ, the true, the only Light,
Sun of Righteousness, arise,
Triumph over the shades of night;
Dayspring from on high be near;
Day-star, in my heart appear.
Dark and cheerless is the morn,
Unaccompanied by Thee;
Joyless is the day's return
Till Thy mercy's beams I see:
Till they inward light impart,
Glad my eyes, and warm my heart.
Visit then this soul of mine;
Pierce the gloom of sin and grief;
Fill me, radiancy divine,
Scatter all my unbelief;
More and more Thyself display,
Shining to the perfect day.