Hail, sacred truth! whose piercing rays
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Hail, sacred truth! whose piercing rays
Dispel the shades of night,
Diffusing o'er a ruined world
The healing beams of light.
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Jesus, thy word, with friendly aid,
Restores our wandering feet;
Converts the sorrows of the mind
To joys divinely sweet.
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O send thy light and truth abroad,
In all their radiant blaze;
And bid the admiring world adore
The glories of thy grace.