23 | The Hymnal#24 | 25 |
Text: | Saviour, breathe an evening blessing |
Author: | James Edmeston |
Author (st. 3): | Edward H. Bickersteth |
Tune: | VESPER HYMN |
Composer: | Dmitri S. Bortniansky |
Savior, breathe an evening blessing,
Ere repose our spirits seal;
Sin and want we come confessing;
Thou canst save, and thou canst heal.
Though the night be dark and dreary,
Darkness cannot hide from thee;
Thou art he who, never weary,
Watchest where thy people be.
Though destruction walk around us,
Though the arrows past us fly,
Angel-guards from thee surround us;
We are safe, if thou art nigh.
Be thou nigh, should death o'ertake us;
Jesus, then our refuge be,
And in Paradise awake us,
There to rest in peace with thee.
Father, to thy holy keeping
Humbly we ourselves resign;
Savior, who hast slept our sleeping,
Make our slumbers pure as thine;
Blessed Spirit, brooding o'er us,
Chase the darkness of our night,
Till the perfect day before us
Breaks in everlasting light.
Amen.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Saviour, breathe an evening blessing |
Author: | James Edmeston (1820) |
Author (st. 3): | Edward H. Bickersteth (1876) |
Meter: | 8.7.8.7.D. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1916 |
Topic: | Daily Prayer: Evening |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | VESPER HYMN |
Composer: | Dmitri S. Bortniansky (1818) |
Meter: | 8.7.8.7.D. |
Incipit: | 35453 52535 42171 |
Key: | E♭ Major |