Ye heav’ns
O haste your dews to shed
Ye clouds
rain gladness on our head
Thou earth
behold the time of grace
And blossom forth in righteousness!
O living Sun
with joy break forth
And pierce the gloomy clefts of earth;
Behold
the mountains melt away
Like wax beneath Thine ardent ray!
O Life-dew of the churches
come
And bid this arid desert bloom!
The sorrows of Thy people see
And take our human flesh on Thee.
Refresh the parched and drooping mind
The broken limb in mercy bind
Us sinners from our guilt release
And fill us with Thy heavenly peace.
O wonder! night no more is night!
Comes then at last the longed-for light?
Ah yes
Thou shinest
O true Sun
In whom are God and man made one!