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YE golden Lamps of Heav'n, farewel [sic],

GOD the everlasting Light of the Saints above. Isaiah lx. 20.

Poet: Philip Doddridge, 1755
Meter: Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)
Location in The Sacred Harp
Stanza Denson Cooper
1
YE golden Lamps of Heav'n *, farewel [sic],
With all your feeble Light:
Farewel [sic], thou ever-changing Moon,
Pale Empress of the Night.
The Last Words of Copernicus 112, Stanza 1, Lines 1, 2, 3, & 4
The Last Words of Copernicus 112, Stanza 1, Lines 1, 2, 3, & 4
2
And thou, refulgent Orb of Day † ,
In brighter Flames array'd,
My Soul, that springs beyond thy Sphere,
No more demands thine Aid.
The Last Words of Copernicus 112, Stanza 1, Lines 5, 6, 7, & 8
The Last Words of Copernicus 112, Stanza 1, Lines 5, 6, 7, & 8
3
Ye Stars are but the shining Dust
Of my divine Abode,
The Pavement of those heav'nly Courts,
Where I shall reign with GOD.

4
The Father of eternal Light
Shall there his beams display;
Nor shall one Moment's Darkness mix
With that unvaried Day.

5
No more the Drops of piercing Grief
Shall swell into mine Eyes;
Nore the Meridian ‡ Sun decline
Amidst those brighter Skies.

6
There shall the Millions of his Saints
Shall in one Song unite,
And each the Bliss of all shall view
With infinite Delight.

* The Stars † The Sun ‡ Noon-Day.
Orton, Job. Hymns, Founded on Various Texts in the Holy Scriptures by the Late Reverend P. Doddridge, D.D. Third Edition. London: Printed by Assignment from the Author's Widow: For J. Buckland, et al, 1766.