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.

O let Thine ori­ent 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.

O may no gloo­my crime

Pollute the ris­ing day;

Or Je­sus’ blood

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 in Three

Be glo­ry; as it was

is now

And shall for­ev­er be.