-I-
How beautiful, the dawning!
As we come to sing to you
Of love, so sweetly burning
Ever constant, ever true!
This dawn, guitars are tinkling
May God's blessings rain anew
Far more than stars oversprinkling,
Fresher than the mountain dew.
From out this starry awning
Would that we could gather two
One to waken you "Good morning",
With the other bid "Adieu!"
Refrain:
A newborn day is dawning,
The rays of the sun break thru,
Arise early this radiant morning
As we sing "Hello" to you.
-II-
On the day that you were born
Flowers wafted their perfume,
For on that baptismal morn
Life in grace began to bloom, ---
A life we learned to scorn
Until there was hardly room
For Love in hearts then torn
By despair and certain doom.
When weary and forlorn
There is One alone with Whom
To share and ease each thorn
And the pain of life in gloom.
Refrain...
-III-
We asked good old St. Peter
And the Lord's beloved John,
May all your dreams be sweeter
For the night of sin is gone
Upon God's Milky Way
Shines the good that you have done,
For only yesterday
He embraced His long-lost son.
With Love as our bouquet
We awaken you this dawn
And Love is here to stay
So that you may carry on.
Refrain...
*The Rainbow, March, 1966
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