Evening
God, That Madest Earth and Heaven
- Words:
- verse 1, Reginald Heber, 1827. verse 2, William Mercer, 1864. verse 3, Richard Whately, 1838.
- Music:
- 'Ar Hyd Y Nos' traditional Welsh.
- Setting:
- "The English Hymnal", 1906.
- Metre:
- 8 4 8 4 8 8 8 4
- 1God, that madest earth and Heaven,darkness and light;Who the day for toil hast given,for rest the night;May Thine angel guards defend us,Slumber sweet Thy mercy send us;Holy dreams and hopes attend us,all through the night.
- 2And when morn again shall call us,to run life's way,May we still, whate'er befall us,Thy will obey.From the pow'r of evil hide us,In the narrow pathway guide us,Nor Thy smile be e'er denied usall through the day.
- 3Guard us waking, guard us sleeping,and when we die,May we in Thy mighty keepingall peaceful lie;When the last dread call shall wake us,Do not Thou, our God, forsake us,But to reign in glory take uswith Thee on high.
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In the hymnals
- Written in 1827, the words are in 499 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
- The tune, Ar Hyd Y Nos, is in 343 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.