592. Saviour, Breathe an Evening Blessing

1 Saviour, breathe an evening blessing,
Ere repose our spirits seal;
Sin and want we come confessing:
Thou canst save, and Thou canst heal.

2 Though destruction walk around us,
Though the arrow past us fly,
Angel guards from Thee surround us;
We are safe, if Thou art nigh.

3 Though the night be dark and dreary,
Darkness cannot hide from Thee;
Thou are He who, never weary,
Watchest where Thy people be.

4 Should swift death this night o'ertake us,
And our couch become our tomb,
May the morn in heaven awake us,
Clad in bright and deathless bloom.

AMEN.

Text Information
First Line: Saviour, breathe an evening blessing
Title: Saviour, Breathe an Evening Blessing
Author: James Edmeston (1820)
Meter: 8.7.8.7
Language: English
Publication Date: 1999
Topic: Closing and Vesper Hymns
Tune Information
Name: EVENING PRAYER
Composer: George C. Stebbins (1878)
Meter: 8.7.8.7
Key: B♭ Major



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