The Cyber Hymnal ‎#6389

6389. The Sun Is Sinking Fast

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 forever mine.

Text Information

• First Line: The sun is sinking fast
• Title: The Sun Is Sinking Fast
• Latin Title: So praeceps rapitur, proxima nox adest
• Translator (from Latin): Edward Caswall
• Meter: 64.66
• Language: English
• Source: Translation in Masque of Mary, 1858; Latin, possible 18th century
• Copyright: Public Domain
• Notes: Alternate tune: ST. COLUMBA (IRONS), Herbert S. Irons, 1861

Tune Information

• Name: TWILIGHT
• Composer: J. H. Hopkins
• Meter: 64.66
• Incipit: 32176 55615 56712
• Key: G Major
• Copyright: Public Domain