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Now The Day Is Over

Words:
Sabine Baring-Gould, 1834–1924/Juan N. De Los Santos
Music:
Joseph Barnby, 1838–1896

Sheet music

  1. 1Now the day is over,Night is drawing nigh;Shadows of the eveningSteal across the sky.(evening Steal across the sky.)Jesus, give the wearyCalm and sweet repose;With Thy ten-d'rest blessingMay our eyelids close.(blessing May our eyelids close.)
  2. 2Grant to little childrenVisions bright of Thee;Guard the sailors tossingOn the deep, blue sea.(tossing On the deep, blue sea.)Thru the long night-watches,May Thine angels spreadTheir white wings above me,Watching round my bed.(-bove me, Watching round my bed.)
  3. 3When the morning wakens,Then may I arisePure, and fresh, and sinlessIn Thy holy eyes.(sinless In Thy holy eyes.)Glory to the Father,Glory to the Son,And to Thee, blest Spirit,Whilst all ages run.(Spirit, Whilst all ages run.)

In the hymnals

  • Written in 1865, the words are in 1,074 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →

Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The sheet music and words are 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.

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