Eternal Light! Eternal Light

Eternal Light! Eternal Light!

How pure the soul must be

When

placed within Thy searching sight

It shrinks not

but with calm delight

Can live and look on Thee.

The spirits that surround Thy throne

May bear the burning bliss;

But that is surely theirs alone

Since they have never

never known

A fallen world like this.

Oh

how shall I

whose native sphere

Is dark

whose mind is dim

Before th’ Ineffable appear

And on my natural spirit bear

The uncreated beam?

There is a way for man to rise

To Thee

sublime Abode;

An Offering and a Sacrifice

A Holy Spirit’s energies

An Advocate with God:

These

these prepare us for the sight

Of holiness above;

The sons of ignorance and night

May dwell in the eternal Light

Through the eternal Love.