Light Of The World
- Words:
- Mrs. Chant
- Music:
- C. H. Purday
Sheet music
- 1Light of the world! Faint were our weary feetWith wand’ring far;But Thou didst come, our lonely hearts to greet,Our Morning Star;And Thou didst bid us lift our gaze on high,And see the glory of the glowing sky.
- 2In days long past we missed our homeward way,We could not see;Blind were our eyes, our feet were bound to stray–How blind to Thee!But Thou didst pity, Lord, our gloomy plight,And Thou didst touch our eyes and give them sight.
- 3Where is death’s sting, where, grave, thy victory,Where all the pain,Now that thy King the veil that hung o’er theeHath rent in twain?Light of the world, we hear Thee bid us comeTo light and love, in Thine eternal home.
In the hymnals
- The words are in 17 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The sheet music and words are from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.