Hail, sacred truth! whose piercing rays

Dispel the shades of night,

Diffusing o’er a sinful world

The healing beams of light.

2 Thy word, O Lord, with friendly aid,

Restores our wandering feet,

Converts the sorrows of the mind

To joys divinely sweet.

3 O, send thy light and truth abroad,

In all their radiant blaze;

And bid the admiring world adore

The glories of thy grace.