All My Heart This Night Rejoices - The Hymns and Carols of Christmas

All My Heart This Night Rejoices
First Sunday in Advent
The Dawn
Christian Friedrich Richter, 1704
Source: Lyra Germanica: First Series, Songs for the Household, 1855
The night is far spent, the day is at hand; let us therefore castoff the works of darkness, and let us put
on the armour of light. From the Epistle
O watchman, will the night of sin
Be never past?
O watchman, doth the tarrying day being
To dawn upon thy straining sight at last?
Will it dispel
Ere long the mists of sense wherein I dwell?
Now all the earth is bright and glad
With the fresh morn;
But all my heart is cold and dark and sad:
Sun of the soul, let me behold Thy dawn!
Come, Jesus, Lord!
Oh quickly come, according to Thy word!
Do we not live in those blest days
So long foretold,
Where Thou shouldst come to bring us light and grace?
And yet I sit in darkness as of old,
Pining to see
Thy glory; but Thou still art far from me.
Long since Thou camest for the light
Of all men here;
And still in me is nought but blackest night.
Yet Am I Thine, O hasten to appear,
Shine forth and bless
My soul with vision of thy righteousness!
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