Evening
Now the Light Has Gone Away
- Words:
- Frances Ridley Havergal, 1869.
- Music:
- 'Müde bin ich, geh zur Ruh' from Liederbuch für Kleinkinder-Schulen, 1842.
- Setting:
- "Common Service Book" (ULCA), 1917, alt.
- Metre:
- 7 7 7 7
- 1Now the light has gone away;Father, listen while I pray,Asking Thee to watch and keepAnd to send me quiet sleep.
- 2Jesus, Savior, wash awayAll that has been wrong today;Help me every day to beGood and gentle, more like Thee.
- 3Let my near and dear ones beAlways near and dear to Thee.Oh, bring me and all I loveTo Thy happy home above.
- 4Now my evening praise I give;Thou didst die that I might live.All my blessings come from Thee;Oh, how good Thou art to me!
- 5Thou, my best and kindest Friend,Thou wilt love me to the end.Let me love Thee more and more,Always better than before.
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- Written in 1871, the words are in 65 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
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.