With
Thee, oh God! to give me light,
No darkness will appear,
And that which in my mental sight
Is dim, Thou wilt make clear.
Thou
dost encircle with thy beams
The earth Thou didst create;
Nor is there any sphere but teems
With light commensurate.
Oh!
never on the stormy sea
Of life let me be driven,
Without thy guiding light to see,
And lead me on to heaven.
How
could I wander forth alone,
In darkness and in fear,
Unless thy heavenly light so shone,
That I might
feel Thee near.
Oh!
wilt Thou deign to shed a ray
Of pure unclouded light
Across my path, if I would stray
One moment from thy sight?
When
Thee I seek, and sin I shun,
When virtue I pursue,
May every effort be begun
With God, my light, in view!
Oh!
let thy countenance divine
So beam upon my soul,
That whether grief or bliss be mine
Thy name I may extol.
The
let no darkness make us fear,
If God our light will be;
And think, if light’s a blessing here,
How blest eternity!
