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Again the Lord of life and light Awakes the kindling ray, Unseals the eyelids of the morn, And pours increasing day. O, what a night was that which wrapp’d The heathen world in gloom! O, what a sun which broke this day Triumphant from the tomb! This day be grateful homage paid, And loud Hosannah’s sung; Let gladness dwell on every heart, And praise on every tongue. Then thousand different lips shall join To hail this happy morn; Which scatters blessings from its wings On nations yet unborn.
Again the Lord of life and light Awakes the kindling ray, Unseals the eyelids of the morn, And pours increasing day. O, what a night was that which wrapp’d The heathen world in gloom! O, what a sun which broke this day Triumphant from the tomb! This day be grateful homage paid, And loud Hosannah’s sung; Let gladness dwell on every heart, And praise on every tongue. Then thousand different lips shall join To hail this happy morn; Which scatters blessings from its wings On nations yet unborn.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Barbauld (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 397 · printed citation: Barbauld · subject: MORNING
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