1 O Morning Star, how fair and bright!
You shine with God's own truth and light,
aglow with grace and mercy!....
2 Come, precious diamond, light divine,
and deep within our hearts now shine;
there light a flame undying!...
3 Lord, when you look on us in love,
at once there falls from God above
a ray of purest pleasure....
4 Almighty Father, in your Son
you loved us when not yet begun
was this old earth's foundation!...
5 Oh, let the harps break forth in sound!
Our joy be all with music crowned,
our voices gaily blending!...
6 What joy to know, when life is past,
the Lord we love is first and last,
the end and the beginning!...
