#53 - Brownell

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• Composer:
  • Franz Joseph Haydn

    • #49 - Bowen
    • #53 - Brownell
    • #113 - Austrian National Hymn

    (1732-1809)¹⁾
• Also known as:
  • When Streaming From the Eastern Skies
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• Incipit: 5351172524435135543421321
• Condensed Incipit: 5351725243513543421321
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• Lyrics:
  When, streaming from the eastern skies,
  The morning light salutes my eyes,
  O Sun of Righteousness Divine,
  On me with beams of mercy shine;
  Chase the dark clouds of sin away
  And turn my darkness into day.
  
  When to heaven's great and glorious King
  My morning sacrifice I bring
  And, grieving o'er my guilt and shame,
  Ask mercy, Savior, in Thy name.
  My conscience sprinkle with Thy blood
  And be my Advocate with God.
  
  When each day's scenes and labors close
  And wearied nature seeks repose,
  With pardoning mercy, richly blest,
  Guard me, my Savior, while I rest;
  And as each morning's sun shall rise,
  Oh, lead me onward to the skies!
  
  And at my life's last setting sun,
  My conflict o'er, my labor done,
  Jesus, Thy heavenly radiance shed
  To cheer ands bless my dying bed
  And from death's gloom my spirit raise
  To see Thy face and sing Thy praise.
  
  
  • William Shrubsole (1759-1829), 1813