| Song | While Midnight Shades The Earth |
| Album | Most Popular Gospel Songs – Letter W |
| Genre | Contemporary Christian Music |
| Writer | Charles Wesley |
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| Tags | While Midnight Shades The Earth |
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While Midnight Shades The Earth Overspreads,
And Veil The Bosom Of The Deep,
Nature Reclines Her Weary Head,
And Care Respires And Sorrows Sleep;
My Soul Still Aims At Nobler Rest,
Aspiring To Her Savior’s Breast.
Aid Me, Ye Hovering Spirits Near,
Angels And Ministers Of Grace;
Who Ever, While You Guard Us Here,
Behold Your Heavenly Father’s Face!
Gently My Raptured Soul Convey
To Regions Of Eternal Day.
Fain Would I Leave This Earth Below,
Of Pain And Sin The Dark Abode;
Where Shadowy Joy, Or Solid Woe,
Allures, Or Tears Me From My God:
Doubtful And Insecure Of Bliss,
Since Death Alone Confirms Me His.
Till Then, To Sorrow Born, I Sigh,
And Gasp, And Languish After Home;
Upward I Send My Streaming Eye,
Expecting Till The Bridegroom Come:
Come Quickly, Lord! Thy Own Receive;
Now Let Me See Thy Face, And Live.
Absent From Thee, My Exiled Soul
Deep In A Fleshly Dungeon Groans;
Around Me Clouds Of Darkness Roll,
And Laboring Silence Speaks My Moans:
Come Quickly, Lord! Thy Face Display,
And Look My Midnight Into Day.
Error, And Sin, And Death Are O’er,
If Thou Reverse The Creature’s Doom;
Sad Rachel Weeps Her Loss No More,
If Thou, The God, The Savior Come:
Of Thee Possest, In Thee We Prove
The Light, The Life, The Heaven Of Love.
