And Now Another Day Is Gone

And now another day is gone, I'll sing my Maker's praise!

Author: Isaac Watts (1715)
Published in 52 hymnals

Representative Text

And now another day is gone,
I’ll sing my Maker’s praise!
My comforts every hour make known
His providence and grace.

But how my childhood runs to waste
My sins how great their sum!
Lord, give me pardon for the past,
And strength for days to come.

I lay my body down to sleep,
Let angels guard my head;
And, through the hours of darkness, keep
Their watch around my bed.

With cheerful heart I close mine eyes,
Since thou wilt not remove;
And in the morning let me rise
Rejoicing in thy love.



Source: Divine and Moral Songs: attempted in easy language for the use of children with some additional composures #HXXVI

Author: Isaac Watts

Isaac Watts was the son of a schoolmaster, and was born in Southampton, July 17, 1674. He is said to have shown remarkable precocity in childhood, beginning the study of Latin, in his fourth year, and writing respectable verses at the age of seven. At the age of sixteen, he went to London to study in the Academy of the Rev. Thomas Rowe, an Independent minister. In 1698, he became assistant minister of the Independent Church, Berry St., London. In 1702, he became pastor. In 1712, he accepted an invitation to visit Sir Thomas Abney, at his residence of Abney Park, and at Sir Thomas' pressing request, made it his home for the remainder of his life. It was a residence most favourable for his health, and for the prosecution of his literary… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: And now another day is gone, I'll sing my Maker's praise!
Title: And Now Another Day Is Gone
Author: Isaac Watts (1715)
Meter: 8.6.8.6
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

Notes

And now another day is gone, I'll sing, &c. I. Watts. [Evening.] "An Evening Song," in 4 stanzas of 4 lines, from his Divine Songs, &c, 1715, into a few modern collections for children, including Major's Book of Praise for Children, No. 288, and others.

-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Tune

[And now another day is gone]


SONG 67

SONG 67 was published as a setting for Psalm 1 in Edmund Prys's Welsh Llyfr y Psalmau (1621). Erik Routley (PHH 31) suggests that the tune should be ascribed to Prys. Orlando Gibbons (PHH 167) supplied a new bass line for the melody when it was published with a number of his own tunes in George With…

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A Church of England Hymn Book #600

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A Collection of Hymns #381

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A Manual of Worship #11

A Selection of Hymns for the Use of Church of England Sunday Schools, Bible Classes ... New ed. #d12

Boston Sunday School Hymn Book. 5th ed. #d9

Canadian Sabbath-School Hymn Book #d12

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David's Harp #33

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Divine and Moral Songs #HXXVI

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Divine Songs for Children #XXV

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Divine Songs #26

Family Hymns #d13

Hymn Book for Sunday Schools #d9

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Hymns additional to the Hymns in the Prayer Book #231

Hymns Ancient and Modern, Revised #36

Hymns and Poetry for the Young #d8

Hymns for Children and Young Persons. First Am. from the London ed. #d8

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Hymns for Church and Home #363

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Hymns for Elementary Schools #75

Hymns for Good Children #d1

Hymns for Him. 1st ed. #d1

Hymns for Schools and Families #d26

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Hymns for Social Worship #474

Hymns for Sunday Schools, Selected from Various Authoors #d15

Hymns, Selected and Original, for Sunday Schools of the Evangelical Lutheran Church #d20

Liturgy and Hymns for Sunday Schools #d8

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Manual for the chapel of Girard College #6

Manual of Devotion and Selection of Hymns for ... Girard College for Orphans #d10

Portsmouth Sunday School Hymn Book #d8

Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 4th ed. #d6

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Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Original and Selected. (14th stereotype ed.) #S173

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Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Original and Selected. (7th ed.) #S335

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Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs #S173

Sabbath School and Social Hymns of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of the U.S.A. #d13

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Songs, Divine and Moral #120

Sunday School Hymn Book #d8

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Sunday School Hymn Book. (19th ed) #83

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The American Baptist Sabbath-School Hymn-Book #323

The Baptist Sabbath School Hymn Book #d29

The Cambridge Hymnal #5

The Child's Prayer and Hymn Book #d5

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The Christian Hymn Book #1191

The Christian Psalter #d27

Union Hymns. Rev. #d23

Union Hymns. Rev. #d25

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Watt's Divine Songs For the use of Children #28

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