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28 | CPWI Hymnal#29 | 30 |
Text: | The sun is sinking fast |
Author: | Anonymous |
Translator: | Edward Caswall, 1814-1878 |
Tune: | ST COLUMBA (IRONS) |
Composer: | Herbert Stephen Irons, 1834-1905 |
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 | |
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First Line: | The sun is sinking fast |
Latin Title: | Sol praecps rapitur, poxima nox adest |
Author: | Anonymous |
Translator: | Edward Caswall, 1814-1878 |
Meter: | 6.4.6.6 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2010 |
Topic: | Hymns for the Church Year: Evening |
Source: | c18th century, Latin |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | ST COLUMBA (IRONS) |
Composer: | Herbert Stephen Irons, 1834-1905 |
Meter: | 6.4.6.6 |
Key: | F Major |