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HYMNS FOR CHILDHOOD.
Yet must thou fade;—when earth and heaven
By fire and tempest shall be riven,
Thou, from thy sphere of radiance driven,
Oh Sun! must fall at last;
Another heaven, another earth,
New pow’r, new glory shall have birth,
When all we see is past.
But He, who gave the word of might,
"Let there be light"—and there was light,
Who bade thee chase the gloom of night,
And beam the world to bless;–
For ever bright, for ever pure,
Alone unchanging shall endure,
The Sun of Righteousness!
