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Hymn score of: Sinks the swift sun - The glory to be revealed (Horatius Bonar/Johannes Thomas Rüegg)

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Sinks the swift sun - The glory to be revealed
(Horatius Bonar/Johannes Thomas Rüegg)

The glory to be revealed.

Exoriar aliis.

1. Sinks the swift sun; yet sinks but to arise
  in other regions far beyond our sight:
we follow him with dim and dazzled eyes,
  till every ray is quenched in silent night. (PDF - Midi)

2. We miss him, but he comes not; he has gone
  to show his glory in more cloudless air:
nothing is lost to him, for in that zone
  he puts on raiment more serenely fair.

3. So sinks the child of heaven, when to our eye
  he disappears; he does not die, but live.
He has passed out beyond this narrower sky,
  diviner splendour to receive and give.

4. He sinks to rise; he sets to shine again
  in fairer heavens, and with diviner light;
no more to set, or take on cloudy stain,
  or leave behind another world of night.

5. O cloudless heaven, in which we hope to shine,
  when we shall leave behind us this dim sphere!
O glorious world, all holy and divine,
  where we shall sparkle through the eternal year!

Horatius Bonar, The Song of the New Creation, 1872, 40-41.

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