Common Service Book of the Lutheran Church ‎#456

456. O Strength and Stay upholding all creation

1 O Strength and Stay upholding all creation,
Who ever dost Thyself unmoved abide,
Yet day by day the light in due gradation
From hour to hour through all its changes guide;

2 Grant to life’s day a calm unclouded ending,
An eve untouched by shadows of decay,
The brightness of a holy death-bed blending
With dawning glories of the eternal day.

3 Hear us, O Father, gracious and forgiving,
Through Jesus Christ Thy co-eternal Word,
Who, with the Holy Ghost, by all things living,
Now and to endless ages art adored.

Amen.

Text Information

• First Line: O Strength and Stay upholding all creation
• Author: Ambrose (?), d. 397
• Translator: John Ellerton (1871)
• Translator: Fenton J. A. Hort (1871)
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1917
• Topic: Times and Seasons: Evening

Tune Information

• Name: STRENGTH AND STAY
• Composer: John B. Dykes (1875)
• Meter: 11 10, 11 10
• Key: D Major