The Day Is Gently Sinking To A Close
- Words:
- Christopher Wordsworth
- Music:
- Henry Smart
Sheet music
- 1The day is gently sinking to a close,Fainter and yet more faint the sunlight glows.O Brightness of Thy Father’s glory,Thou Eternal Light of Light, be with us now.Where Thou art present darkness cannot be;Midnight is glorious noon, O Lord, with Thee.
- 2Our changeful lives are ebbing to an end;Onward to darkness and to death we tend.O Conqueror of the grave, be Thou our guide,Be Thou our light in death’s dark eventide;Then in our mortal hour will be no gloom,No sting in death, no terror in the tomb.
- 3Thou, Who in darkness walking didst appearUpon the waves, and Thy disciples cheer,Come, Lord, in lone some days, when storms assail,And earthly hopes and human succors fail.When all is dark may we behold Thee nigh,And hear Thy voice: “Fear not, for it is I.”
- 4The weary world is mold’ring to decay,Its glories wane, its pageants fade away;In that last sunset, when the, stars shall fall,May we arise awakened by Thy call,With Thee, O Lord, forever to abideIn that blest day which has no eventide.Amen.
In the hymnals
- Written in 1863, the words are in 154 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.