LYRICS
| Meter: | 6 4 6 6
| | Writer(s): | Latin
| | Transl/Adapt: | Edward Caswall
| | Dates: | 18 cent,1858
| | Bible Refs: | Mt 6:10
| Baptist Hymn Book
| 1962
| 709
| Church Hymnal (Church of Ireland) 1919
| 1919
| 37
| Church Hymnal (Church of Ireland) 1960
| 1960
| 34
| Church Hymnal Revised
| 1920
| 10
| Hymnal Comp to Book of Common Prayer
| 1890
| 26
| Hymns Ancient & Modern, New Edition
| 1904
| 17
| Hymns Ancient & Modern, New Standard
| 1983
| 14
| Hymns Ancient & Modern, Revised
| 1950
| 30
| Hymns Ancient & Modern, Standard
| 1922
| 17
| Methodist Hymn Book - Hymns
| 1954
| 939
| Oxford Hymn Book
| 1925
| 33
| The Book of Common Praise
| 1908
| 23
| The Book of Common Praise - Revised
| 1938
| 21
| The Church Hymnal for the Christian Year
| 1917
| 51
| The English Hymnal
| 1906
| 280
| The Hymnal 1916
| 1916
| 17
| The Hymnal 1940
| 1940
| 183
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| 1. The sun is sinking fast,
The daylight dies;
Let love awake, and pay
Her evening sacrifice.
2. As Christ upon the cross
His head inclined,
And to His Father’s hands
His parting soul resigned;
3. So now herself my soul
Would wholly give
Into His sacred charge
In Whom all spirits live;
4. So now beneath His eye
Would calmly rest,
Without a wish or thought
Abiding in the breast;
5. Save that His will be done,
Whate’er betide;
Dead to herself, and dead
In Him to all beside.
6. Thus would I live: yet now
Not I, but He,
In all His power and love,
Henceforth alive in me.
7. One sacred Trinity,
One Lord divine,
May I be ever His,
And He forever mine.
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