O GIVE ME LIGHT ONCE MORE.
By Benjamin Phillips
O COME, great King, and give me light!
Give back to me one blissful hour;
Sweet faith did vanish from my sight,
So I must seek again Thy power.
Renew the joy that now is gone,
Great King, whom I adore;
Replant sweet trust within my heart,
O give me light once more! This weary world has brought me woe,
And I am worn with aching care;
O King, Thy gracious aid bestow,
And free me from each earthly snare.
I come to Thee, my spirits crushed,
Great King, whom I adore,
And ask to be from pain relieved—
O give me light once more! My tasks were hard, my way was lone,
And, Lord, without the trust in Thee
My rest was on a rugged stone,
And toil had borne no fruit for me.
Great King, O pass me not to-day,
My vanished bliss restore;
For I have come to seek thy help—
O give me light once more! Seiad, Cal. BENJ. PHILLIPS.