Wesley Corpus

A Morning Hymn Source: Collection of Psalms and Hymns (1741) Author: Charles Wesley (attributed) --- We lift our hearts to thee, O Day-Star from on high! The sun itself is but thy shade, Yet chears both earth and sky. O let thy orient beams The night of sin disperse! Those 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. O may no gloomy crime Polute the rising day; Or kindly tears, like evening dew, Wash all the stains away. May we this life improve, To mourn for errors past, And live this short revolving day As if it were our last. To God the Father, Son, And Spirit, One and Three, Be glory, as it was, is now, And shall for ever be.