The Beauteous Day Now Closeth

Words:
Paul Gerhardt
Music:
Heinrich Isaak

Sheet music

  1. 1The beauteous day now closeth,Each flow’r and tree reposeth,Shade creeps o’er wild and wood.Let us, as night is, falling,On God, our Maker, calling,Give thanks to him, the Giver good.
  2. 2Now all the heav’nly splendorBreaks forth in starlight tenderFrom myriad worlds unknown;And man, thy marvel seeing,Forgets his selfish beingFor joy of beauty not his own.
  3. 3Awhile his mortal blindnessMay miss God’s loving kindness,And grope in faithless strife;But, when life’s day is over,Shall death’s fair night discoverThe fields of everlasting life.Amen.

In the hymnals

  • Written in 1648, the words are in 3 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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