Evening
Jesus, Tender Shepherd, Hear Me
- Words:
- Mary L. Duncan, 1839. Music and Setting: 'Evening Prayer' John Stainer, 1898.
- Metre:
- 8 7 8 7
- 1Jesus, tender Shepherd, hear me;Bless Thy little lamb tonight;Through the darkness be Thou near me;Watch my sleep till morning light.
- 2All this day thy hand has led me,And I thank Thee for Thy care;Thou hast clothed me, warmed and fed me,Listen to my evening prayer.
- 3Let my sins be all forgiven;Bless the friends I love so well;Take me, when I die, to heaven,Happy there with Thee to dwell.
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In the hymnals
- Written in 1839, the words are in 488 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
- The tune, Evening Prayer, is in 55 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.