See now the waves that bathe the shores,
Reflecting light the sun outpours;
So in all lands beneath the sun,
The reign of day is now begun.

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Send the light, Oh, send it on!
Till all lands take up the song;
See the suffering where they fall;
Hear, oh, hear, their pleading call.

The lands long dark by Satan’s night
Sadly await the coming light;
There millions sink in deadly dread,
No pillow sure for dying head.

Refrain

Too long the light have we withheld,
Whose rays their night would have dispelled;
Speed on the day, the glo­ri­ous day,
Thro’ Christ, the Light, the Truth, the Way.

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