I praise you in my wonder;
I sing your holy name.
Dark shadows I walk under,
yet you fill me with flame.
Your piercing gaze from heaven,
undaunted by the gloom:
It rests on me forever,
is with me in all harm.
Though I may walk in darkness,
you show me still your light;
the end of all my longing
is somehow in my sight.
And I will sing with angels
in heaven as on earth
your care in all my dangers,
your glimmer through the murk.
Come with me, then, salvation,
through these yet dark'ning days,
when shadows overtake me
and hide your mercy's rays,
shine on, shine on and give me
a beacon in the dark.
Shine on and still come with me,
your lamplight in my heart.
Kate Bluett 