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Text: | The Duteous Day Now Closes |
Author: | Paul Gerhardt (1607-1676) |
Translator: | Robert Seymour Bridges (1844-1930) |
Tune: | INNSBRUCK |
Adapter: | Heinrich Isaac, 1450?-1517 |
Adapter and Harmonizer: | Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750 |
1 The duteous day now closes,
each flower and tree reposes,
shade creeps o'er wild and wood:
let us, as night is falling,
on God our maker calling,
give thanks and bless the Giver good.
2 Now all the heavenly splendour
breaks forth in starlight tender
from myriad worlds unknown;
and we, this marvel seeing,
forget our selfish being
for joy of beauty not our own.
3 Though long our mortal blindness
has missed God's loving kindness
and plunged us into strife;
yet when life's day is over,
shall death's fair night discover
the fields of everlasting life.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | The duteous day now closes |
Title: | The Duteous Day Now Closes |
Author: | Paul Gerhardt (1607-1676) |
Translator: | Robert Seymour Bridges (1844-1930) (alt.) |
Meter: | 776 778 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1998 |
Scripture: | ; |
Topic: | Evening; Creation; O Gracious Light |
Copyright: | Tr. © Oxford University Press |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | INNSBRUCK |
Adapter: | Heinrich Isaac, 1450?-1517 |
Adapter and Harmonizer: | Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750 |
Meter: | 776 778 |
Key: | G Major |
Source: | German, (15th cent.) |