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- When morning gilds the skies,
- .i Edward Caswall (1814-78)
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- When morning gilds the skies,
- My heart awaking cries:
- May Jesus Christ be praised!
- Alike at work and prayer
- Let this be all my care:
- May Jesus Christ be praised!
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- To God the Word on high
- The hosts of angels cry:
- May Jesus Christ be praised!
- Let mortals, too, upraise
- Their voice in hymns of praise:
- May Jesus Christ be praised!
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- Let earth's wide circle round
- In joyful notes resound:
- May Jesus Christ be praised!
- Let air and sea and sky
- From depth to height reply:
- May Jesus Christ be praised!
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- The night becomes as day
- When from the heart we say:
- May Jesus Christ be praised!
- The powers of darkness fear
- When this glad song they hear,
- May Jesus Christ be praised!
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- Does sadness fill my mind?
- My strength in Him I find:
- May Jesus Christ be praised!
- When earthly hopes grow dim
- My comfort is in Him:
- May Jesus Christ be praised!
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- Be this, while life is mine,
- My hymn of love divine:
- May Jesus Christ be praised!
- Be this the eternal song
- Through all the ages long:
- May Jesus Christ be praised!
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