The Lutheran Hymnary ‎#564

564. The sun is sinking fast

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 for ever mine.

Text Information

• First Line: The sun is sinking fast
• Author: Anon.
• Meter: 6, 4, 6, 6.
• Publication Date: 1913
• Topic: Family Prayer: Evening
• Source: (Latin)

Tune Information

• Name: [The sun is sinking fast]
• Composer: J. H. Hopkins (1872)
• Meter: 6, 4, 6, 6.
• Key: G Major