O God, Thy world is sweet with prayer
O God, Thy world is sweet with prayer. Lucy Larcom* (1826-1893).
First published in Larcom’s At the Beautiful Gate, and Other Songs of Faith (1892), in three stanzas. It was the first of the ‘Hymns of a day’, entitled ‘Dawn’:
O God, Thy world is sweet with prayer; The breath of Christ is in the air; We rise on Thy free Spirit’s wings, And every thought within us sings.
Thou art our Morning and our Sun; Our work is glad, in Thee begun Our footworn path is fresh with dew, For Thou createst all things new.
O God, within us and above, Close to us in the Christ we love, Through Him, our only Guide and Way, May heavenly life be ours today!
It was published in The Pilgrim Hymnal (1904), and...
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