Again, As Evening's Shadow Falls

Words:
Samuel Longfellow
Music:
Jeremiah Clark

Sheet music

This tune was read from the sheet music by computer, so it may have the odd wrong note or rhythm; the sheet music itself is as printed.

  1. 1Again, as evening’s shadow falls,We gather in these hallowed walls;And vesper hymn and vesper prayerRise mingling on the holy air.May struggling hearts, that seek release,Here find the rest of God’s own peace;And, strengthened here by hymn and prayer,Lay down the burden and the care.
  2. 2O God our Light, to Thee we bow;Within all shadows standest Thou;Give deeper calm than night can bring,Give sweeter songs than lips can sing.Life’s tumult we must meet again,We cannot at the shrine remain;But in the spirit’s secret cell,May hymn and prayer forever dwell.Amen

In the hymnals

  • Written in 1859, the words are in 170 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →

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