Sun Of My Soul

Words:
John Keble
Music:
Peter Ritter

Sheet music

  1. 1Sun of my soul, Thou Savior dear,It is not night if Thou be near;O may no earthborn cloud ariseTo hide Thee from Thy servant’s eyes!When the soft dews of kindly sleepMy wearied eyelids gently steep,Be my last tho't, how sweet to restForever on my Savior’s breast.
  2. 2Abide with me from morn till eve,For without Thee I cannot live;Abide with me when night is nigh,For without Thee I dare not die.If some poor wandering child of ThineHave spurned today the voice divine–Now, Lord, the gracious work begin;Let him no more lie down in sin.
  3. 3Watch by the sick: enrich the poorWith blessings from Thy boundless store;Be ev’ry mourner’s sleep tonight,Like infant’s slumbers, pure and light.Come near and bless us when we wake,Ere thru the world our way we take;Till in the ocean of Thy love,We lose ourselves in heav'n above.

In the hymnals

  • Written in 1820, the words are in 1,577 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →

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