1279 | The Cyber Hymnal#1280 | 1281 |
Text: | The Duteous Day Now Closeth |
Author: | Paul Gerhardt |
Paraphraser: | Robert S. Bridges |
Tune: | INNSBRUCK |
Composer (attributed to): | Henrich Isaak |
Media: | MIDI file |
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 | |
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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 | |
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Name: | INNSBRUCK |
Composer (attributed to): | Henrich Isaak (1490, pub. 1539) |
Meter: | 77.67.78 |
Incipit: | 31234 54334 55231 |
Key: | F Major |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Media | |
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Adobe Acrobat image: | Adobe Acrobat image (Cyber Hymnal) |
MIDI file: | MIDI File (Cyber Hymnal) |
Noteworthy Composer score: | Noteworthy Composer score (Cyber Hymnal) |
XML score: | XML score |