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VESPER HYMN.
The lights o'er yonder snowy range
Shine yet, intense yet tender;
Or, slowly passing, only change
From splendour on to splendour.
Shine yet, intense yet tender;
Or, slowly passing, only change
From splendour on to splendour.
Before the dying eyes of Day
Immortal visions wander;
Dreams prescient of a purer ray
And morn spread still beyond her.
Immortal visions wander;
Dreams prescient of a purer ray
And morn spread still beyond her.
Lo! heavenward now those gleams expire
In heavenly melancholy;
The barrier mountains, peak and spire,
Relinquishing them slowly.
In heavenly melancholy;
The barrier mountains, peak and spire,
Relinquishing them slowly.
Thus shine, O God! our mortal Powers,
While grief and joy refine them;
And when in death they fade be ours
Thus gently to resign them!
While grief and joy refine them;
And when in death they fade be ours
Thus gently to resign them!
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