Evening
All Praise To Thee, My God, This Night
- Words:
- Thomas Ken, circa 1674.
- Music:
- 'Tallis` Canon' Thomas Tallis, circa 1567.
- Setting:
- "A Hymnal" (Episcopal), 1916.
- Metre:
- 8 8 8 8
- 1All praise to Thee, my God, this night,For all the blessings of the light!Keep me, O keep me, King of kings,Beneath Thine own almighty wings.
- 2Forgive me, Lord, for Thy dear Son,The ill that I this day have done,That with the world, myself, and Thee,I, ere I sleep, at peace may be.
- 3Teach me to live, that I may dreadThe grave as little as my bed.Teach me to die, that so I mayRise glorious at the judgment day.
- 4O may my soul on Thee repose,And with sweet sleep mine eyelids close,Sleep that may me more vig'rous makeTo serve my God when I awake.
- 5When in the night I sleepless lie,My soul with heav'nly thoughts supply;Let no ill dreams disturb my rest,No pow'rs of darkness me molest.
- 6O when shall I, in endless day,For ever chase dark sleep away,And hymns divine with angels sing,All praise to thee, eternal King?
- 7Praise God, from Whom all blessings flow;Praise Him, all creatures here below;Praise Him above, ye heavenly host;Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
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In the hymnals
- Written in 1709, the words are in 1,110 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
- The tune, Tallis` Canon, is in 622 hymnals. The tune →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project (Brian J. Dumont), which places its own work in the public domain. Further sheet music is from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.