If the Light Has Gone Out

When the sun of your life has gone down

And the clouds in the west turn to gold

Endless night then to you will have come

If the light has gone out in your soul.

O just think how in death you will feel

With the light grow­ing dim in your soul;

O how lone­ly ’twill be! O how still!

When the light has gone out of your soul.

When you come to the end of the way

And life’s sto­ry for you has been told

O how sad all to you will ap­pear

If the light has gone out in your soul.

When be­fore judg­ment’s bar you shall stand

And the deeds that have here had con­trol

Good and ev­il ap­pear

O what then

If the light has gone out in your soul?