Oh How Fair That Morning Broke

 

VERSE 1

Oh how fair that morning broke,

When in Eden man awoke!

Beast and bird and insect bright

Reveled in the gladsome light;

God looked down from Heav’n above,

All was life and joy and love.

 

VERSE 2

Ah! the doleful change when sin

Darkly, subtly entered in!

War and pestilence and dearth

Mar and sadden God’s fair earth;

Human sorrow fills the air;

Death is reigning everywhere.

 

VERSE 3

Yet rejoice; for God on high

Hath not left His world to die!

God’s dear Son, with dying breath,

Broke the power of sin and death;

Christ the Tempter overthrew,

Christ is making all things new.

 

VERSE 4

Lord, in me be sin subdued,

So may I with heart renewed,

Fight the fight and run the race,

Work in my appointed place,

Waiting for the glad new birth

Of Thy perfect Heav’n and earth.

 

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