Thou Art, O God, the Life and Light NEW 113TH—William Hayes Thou Art, O God, the Life and Light 1 Thou art, O God, the life and light Of all this wondrous world we see; Its glow by day, its smile by night, Are but reflections from thee; Where’er we turn, thy glories shine, And all things fair and bright are thine. 2 When day, with farewell beam, delays Among the opening clouds of even, And we can almost think we gaze, Through opening vistas into heaven, Those hues that mark the sun’s decline,