The Sun Declines
- Words:
- R. Walmsley
- Music:
- H. R. Palmer
Sheet music
- 1The sun declines: o’er land and seaCreeps on the night;The twinkling stars come one by oneTo shed their light;With Thee there is no darkness, Lord:With us abide;And ‘neath Thy wings we rest secureThis eventide.
- 2And when with morning light we rise,Kept by Thy care,We’ll lift to Thee with grateful heartsOur morning prayer;Be Thou thru life our Strength and Stay,Our Guard and GuideTo that dear home where there will beNo eventide.Amen.
In the hymnals
- Written in 1893, the words are in 21 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.