Text:The Duteous Day Now Closeth
Author:Paul Gerhardt
Paraphraser:Robert S. Bridges
Tune:INNSBRUCK
Composer (attributed to):Henrich Isaak
Media:MIDI file

1280. The Duteous Day Now Closeth

1. The duteous day now closeth,
Each flower and tree reposeth,
Shade creeps o’er wild and wood:
Let us, as night is falling,
On God our Maker calling,
Give thanks to Him, the Giver good.

2. Now all the heav’nly splendor
Breaks forth in starlight tender
From myriad worlds unknown;
And man, the marvel seeing,
Forgets his selfish being,
For joy of beauty not his own.

3. His care he drowneth yonder,
Lost in the abyss of wonder;
To Heav’n his soul doth steal:
This life he disesteemeth,
The day it is that dreameth,
That doth from truth his vision seal.

4. Awhile his mortal blindness
May miss God’s lovingkindness,
And grope in faithless strife:
But when life’s day is over
Shall death’s fair night discover
The fields of everlasting life.

Text Information
First Line: The duteous day now closeth
Title: The Duteous Day Now Closeth
German Title: Nun ruhen alle Wälder
Author: Paul Gerhardt (1648)
Paraphraser: Robert S. Bridges (1899)
Meter: 77.67.78
Language: English
Source: Praxis Pietatis Melica, 3rd edition, by Johann Crüger, 1648
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: INNSBRUCK
Composer (attributed to): Henrich Isaak (1490, pub. 1539)
Meter: 77.67.78
Incipit: 31234 54334 55231
Key: F Major
Copyright: Public Domain



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