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Text:Go Down, Great Sun
Author:Edward Husbund
Tune:PAX DEI
Composer:John Bacchus Dykes
Media:MIDI file

11399. Go Down, Great Sun

1 Go down, great sun, into thy golden west,
The day is done, the hours of labor past;
The night’s dark shadows deepen all around;
The day is over; rest has come at last.

2 And so our life to even-tide draws nigh,
Our days of change their course have almost run;
And soon the storms of winter will be past,
And then comes summer, and the unsetting sun.

3 And in that holier world of joy and peace,
Our sun shall rise upon a land so blest,
That none in this poor world have words to tell
How great the joy of that pure heavenly rest.

Text Information
First Line: Go down, great sun, into thy golden west
Title: Go Down, Great Sun
Author: Edward Husbund
Meter: 10.10.10.10
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: PAX DEI
Composer: John Bacchus Dykes
Meter: 10.10.10.10
Key: D Major
Copyright: Public Domain



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