A Life Of Light

Tune: Newcastle

('Eternal Light! Eternal Light!')

Luke 11 v.33-36

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No one, when candle has lighted

Causes it benighted

To become, puts it not wihtin

A secret place, that it therein

Light's flame does not begin

Nor do they put it under bush

As if it hidden, hush

But puts it on a candlestick

That there it may burn with its wick

What size be, thin or thick

So then all they may see its light

Shining clearly to sight

The light of the body, the eye

It be, thus when your eye clear, see

Body full of light be

But when your eye is bad, then this

Body full of darkness

Take heed therefore that the light in

You be not darkness, not of sin

But shine clear from within

If your whole body full of light

No part dark, no part night

You shall be full of light wholly

As when bright candle shines purely

Gives light radiantly