Eternal Light! Eternal Light!
- Words:
- Thomas Binney
- Music:
- Henry K. Morley
Sheet music
- 1Eternal Light! eternal Light!How pure that soul must be,When, placed within Thy searching sight,It shrinks not, but with calm delightCan live, and look on Thee.The spirits that surround Thy throneMay bear the burning bliss;But surely that is theirs aloneWho, undefiled, have never knownA fallen world like this.
- 2O how shall I, whose native sphereIs dark, whose mind is dim,Before th’Ineffable appear,And on my naked spirit bearThe uncreated beam?There is a way for man to riseTo that sublime abode:An off’ring and a sacrifice,A holy spirit’s energies,An advocate with God.
- 3These, these prepare us for the sightOf holiness above:The sons of ignorance and nightMay dwell in the eternal Light,Thru the eternal Love!Amen.
In the hymnals
- The words are in 97 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
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