When Morning Gilds The Skies

Words:
Portner's Katholisches Gesangbuch, Tr. by Edward Caswall
Music:
Joseph Barnby

Sheet music

  1. 1When morning gilds the skies,My heart awaking cries,May Jesus Christ be praised!Alike at work and prayer,To Jesus I repair;May Jesus Christ be praised!
  2. 2The night becomes as day,When from the heart we say,May Jesus Christ be praised!The pow’rs of darkness fear,When this sweet song they hear,May Jesus Christ be praised!
  3. 3In heav’n’s eternal blissThe sweetest strain is this,May Jesus Christ be praised!Let earth, and sea, and skyFrom depth to height reply,May Jesus Christ be praised!
  4. 4Be this, while life is mine,My canticle divine,May Jesus Christ be praised!Be this th’eternal songThru all the ages on,May Jesus Christ be praised!

In the hymnals

  • Written in 1854, the words are in 765 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.

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