Come now awakening rays of day

Come now awakening rays of day
Come and wash me in thy luminous light
Cast away the shadows of night
And fill me with thy warmth

Laten eve and early morn
Draw me to thy sun
Shine on me
And in me light
What fires near
Have fled at night

Increase thy strength
Within my heart
Make us as one
Ne'er apart

For though what shadows
And clouds might
Steal me away
From thy surround ray
May I not be caught up with them

Let thy warmth entangle me
From skin and soul
Take full control
Of these failing faculties of mind

Little good do I find
When midnight approach
And the moon is high
Oft enraptured I
In some darkened deed
Where I am drawn away
From thy sunlit way

Return to me
Thy fires which burn
Teach me that I might learn
Yes yearn within me
Thy desires
For thy light
Doth lead me
To all ways right

So may I be found
Pleasing in thy sight
Sundressed in thy holy light

-Joshua Lee Foist