LYRICS
| Meter: | 8 7 8 7
| | Writer(s): | James Edmeston & Edward Henry Bickersteth
| | Transl/Adapt: |
| | Dates: | 1820,1876
| | Bible Refs: | 2 Sa 7:29; Ps 141:2
| Baptist Hymnal
| 1956
| 34
| Church Hymnal (Church of Ireland) 1919
| 1919
| 31
| Church Hymnal Revised
| 1920
| 17
| Sacred Songs & Solos: Revised and enlarg
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| 286
| The Book of Common Praise
| 1908
| 25
| The Book of Common Praise - Revised
| 1938
| 24
| The Church Hymnal for the Christian Year
| 1917
| 48
| The Hymnal 1916
| 1916
| 24
| The Hymnal 1940
| 1940
| 178
| Trinity Hymnal
| 1961
| 340
| Universal Hymn Book
| 1885
| 613
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MUSIC
 Sacred Songs & Solos: Revised and enlarg
| 286
| Bb
| Methodist Hymn Book - Hymns
| 844
| F
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Alternate Tunes
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| 1. Savior, breathe an evening blessing
Ere repose our spirits seal;
Sin and want we come confessing:
Thou canst save,
and Thou canst heal.
2. Though destruction
walk around us,
Though the arrow past us fly,
Angel guards from
Thee surround us;
We are safe if Thou art nigh.
3. Though the night
be dark and dreary,
Darkness cannot hide from Thee;
Thou art He who, never weary,
Watchest where Thy people be.
4. Should swift death
this night o’ertake us,
And our couch become our tomb,
May the morn in heaven awake us,
Clad in light and deathless bloom.
5. Father, to thy holy keeping
Humbly we ourselves resign;
Savior, who hast
slept our sleeping,
Make our slumbers pure as thine
6. Blessèd Spirit, brooding o’er us,
Chase the darkness of our night,
Till the perfect day before us
Breaks in everlasting light.
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