Text: | The sun is sinking fast |
Translator: | E. Caswall, 1814-1878 |
Tune: | ST. COLUMBA |
Composer: | Herbert S. Irons, 1834-1905 |
1 The sun is sinking fast,
The daylight dies;
Let love awake, and pay
Her evening sacrifice.
2 As Christ upon the Cross
His head inclined,
And to His Father's hands
His parting soul resigned,
3 So now herself my soul
Would wholly give
Into His sacred charge,
In whom all spirits live;
4 So now beneath His eye
Would calmly rest,
Without a wish or thought
Abiding in the breast,
5 Save that His will be done,
Whate'er betide,
Dead to herself, and dead
In Him to all beside.
6 Thus would I live; yet now
Not I, but He
In all His power and love
Henceforth alive in me.
7 One sacred Trinity!
One Lord Divine!
May I be ever His,
And He for ever mine.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | The sun is sinking fast |
Translator: | E. Caswall, 1814-1878 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1917 |
Topic: | Soul: Commended to God; The Church and the Kingdom of God: Evening; Evening: Hymns(2 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | ST. COLUMBA |
Composer: | Herbert S. Irons, 1834-1905 |
Meter: | 6.4.6.6 |
Key: | F Major or modal |