LYRICS
| Meter: | 7 7 6 7 7 8
| | Writer(s): | Paul Gerhardt
| | Transl/Adapt: | Robert Seymour Bridges
| | Dates: | 1648,1899
| | Bible Refs: | Ps 19:1
| Australian Hymn Book/With One Voice
| 1977
| 15
| Baptist Hymn Book
| 1962
| 707
| Common Praise (Anglican C. of Canada)
| 1998
| 19
| Common Praise: Hymns Ancient & Modern
| 2000
| 23
| Hymns Ancient & Modern, New Standard
| 1983
| 17
| Hymns Ancient & Modern, Revised
| 1950
| 34
| Hymns and Psalms with SA Sup.
| 1983
| 647
| New English Hymnal
| 1985
| 253
| Songs of Praise
| 1925
| 40
| Songs of Praise, Enlarged Edition
| 1931
| 57
| The English Hymnal
| 1906
| 278
| The Hymnal 1940
| 1940
| 181
| The Hymnal 1982
| 1982
| 46
| Yattendon Hymnal
| 1900
| 83
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MUSIC
Baptist Hymn Book
| 707
| G
| Methodist Hymn Book - Hymns
| 946
| G
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Alternate Tunes
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| 1. The duteous day now closeth,
Each flower 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. Now all the heav’nly splendor
Breaks forth in starlight tender
From myriad worlds unknown;
And man, the marvel seeing,
Forgets his selfish being,
For joy of beauty not his own.
3. His care he drowneth yonder,
lost in the abyss of wonder;
to heaven his soul doth steal:
this life he disesteemeth,
the day it is that dreameth,
that doth from truth his vision seal.
4. Awhile his mortal blindness
May miss God’s lovingkindness,
And grope in faithless strife:
But when life’s day is over
Shall death’s fair night discover
The fields of everlasting life.
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