We Lift Our Hearts to Thee Lyrics Charles Wesley, 1741
5 verses, meter S. M., public domain, free to print and project.
The words
Verse 1. 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.
Verse 2. O let Thy rising beams
The night of sin disperse,
The mists of error and of vice,
Which shade the universe.
Verse 3. How beauteous nature now!
How dark and sad before!
With joy we view the pleasing change
And nature’s God adore.
Verse 4. O may no gloomy crime
Pollute the rising day;
May Jesus’ blood, like morning dew,
Wash all our stains away.
Verse 5. May we this life improve
To mourn for errors past
And live this short, revolving day
As if it were our last.
Words copied from Evangelical Lutheran Hymn-Book (Abridged Edition) (1927). They were published in 1741, so they are in the public domain in the United States, and your church may print them, show them and sing them without a license.
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