We lift our hearts to thee

We lift our hearts to Thee,
O Day-star from on high!
The sun itself is but Thy shade,
Yet cheers both earth and sky.

Oh, let Thy rising beams
The night of sin disperse,
The mists of error and of vice
Which shade the universe!

How beauteous nature now!
How dark and sad before!
With joy we view the pleasing change,
And nature’s God adore.

Oh, may no gloomy crime
Pollute the rising day;
Or Jesus’ blood, like evening dew,
Wash all our stains away.

To God, the Father, Son,
And Spirit, One in Three,
Be glory, as it was, is now,
And shall for ever be.