Arise and Shine, Your Light Is Come

Arise and shine

your light is come

Fair is­lands of the West!

Awake and sing

once deaf and dumb

Now is­lands of the blest.

Shine

for the glo­ry of the Lord

Your cor­al reefs sur­rounds:

Sing

for the trum­pet of His word

O’er all your ocean sounds.

Poor Af­ri­ca! through thy waste sands

Where Cal­va­ry’s fount­ain flows

Deserts be­come Im­man­uel’s lands

And blos­som like the rose.

India

be­neath the char­iot wheels

Of Jug­ger­naut o’er­thrown

Thy heart a quick­en­ing spir­it feels

A pulse beats through the stone.

O China! see thy quak­ing wall:

Foredoomed by Heav’n’s de­cree

A hand is writ­ing on it— Fall!

A voice goes forth— Be free!

Ye pa­gan tribes! of ev­ery race

Clime

coun­try

lang­uage

hue

Believe

ob­ey

be saved by grace

The Gos­pel speaks to you.

Father of lights! Thy will be done

Here

as by saints ab­ove;

Give earth’s whole em­pire to Thy Son

For He must reign in love.

Reign

till be­neath His feet

all foes

Forever van­quished lie;

And the last judg­ment’s sen­tence close

The book of pro­phe­cy.