Light of the world! forever, ever shining, There is no change in Thee; True light of life, all joy and health enshrining, Thou canst not fade nor flee. Thou hast arisen, but Thou declinest never; Today shines as the past; All that Thou wast Thou art and shalt be ever, Brightness from first to last. Night visits not Thy sky, nor storm, nor sadness; Day fills up all its blue- Unfailing beauty, and unfaltering gladness, And lover forever new. Light of the world! undimming and unsetting, O shine each mist away; Banish the fear, the falsehood, and the fretting; Be our unchanging day.
Light of the world! forever, ever shining,
There is no change in Thee;
True light of life, all joy and health enshrining,
Thou canst not fade nor flee.
Thou hast arisen, but Thou declinest never;
Today shines as the past;
All that Thou wast Thou art and shalt be ever,
Brightness from first to last.
Night visits not Thy sky, nor storm, nor sadness;
Day fills up all its blue-
Unfailing beauty, and unfaltering gladness,
And lover forever new.
Light of the world! undimming and unsetting,
O shine each mist away;
Banish the fear, the falsehood, and the fretting;
Be our unchanging day.