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First Line: The sun comes forth - each mountain height
Last Line: The sun of righteousness!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Sun


THE Sun comes forth; -- each mountain height
Glows with a tinge of rosy light,
And flowers, that slumbered through the night,
Their dewy leaves unfold;
A flood of splendour bursts on high,
And ocean's breast gives back a sky
All steeped in molten gold.

Oh! thou art glorious, orb of day;
Exulting nations hall thy ray,
Creation swells a choral lay,
To welcome thy return;
From thee all nature draws her hues,
Thy beams the insect's wing suffuse,
And in the diamond burn.

Yet must thou fade; -- when earth and heaven
By fire and tempest shall be riven,
Thou, from thy sphere of radiance driven,
O Sun! must fall at last;
Another heaven, another earth,
New power, new glory shall have birth,
When all we see is past.

But He, who gave the word of might,
"Let there be light" -- and there was light,
Who bade thee chase the gloom of night,
And beam the world to bless; --
For ever bright, for ever pure,
Alone unchanging shall endure,
The Sun of Righteousness!





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