Dayspring Of Eternity

let thy mercies’ morning dew

rouse our conscience from its blindness:

gladden life’s dry plains anew

with the rivers of thy kindness;

water daily us thy flock

from the rock.

let the glow of love destroy

cold obedience faintly given,

wake our hearts to love and joy

with the flushing eastern heaven;

let us truly rise ere yet

life hath set.

through this dark and tearful place

never be thy light denied us.

o thou glorious sun of grace,

to yon world of gladness guide us,

when to joys that never end

we ascend!

ah! thou dayspring from on high

grant that at thy next appearing

we who in the graves do lie

may arise, thy summons hearing,

and rejoice in our new life,

far from strife.

light us to those heavenly spheres,

sun of grace, in glory shrouded;

lead us through this vale of tears

to the land whose days unclouded,

purest joy, and perfect peace

never cease.