The Day Thou Gavest
- Words:
- John Ellerton
- Music:
- Clement C. Scholefield
Sheet music
- 1The day Thou gavest, Lord, is ended,The darkness falls at Thy behest;To Thee our morning hymns ascended:Thy praise shall hallow now our rest.We thank Thee that Thy church, unsleeping,While earth rolls onward into light;Thru’ all the world her watch is keeping,And rests not now by day or night.
- 2The sun that bids us rest is wakingOur brethren ’neath the western sky;And hour by hour fresh lips are makingThy wondrous doings heard on high.So be it, Lord: Thy throne shall never,Like earth’s proud empires, pass away;But stand and rule and grow forever,Till all Thy creatures own Thy sway.
In the hymnals
- Written in 1870, the words are in 322 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.