Text: | The duteous day now closeth |
Author: | Paul Gerhardt, 1607-1676 |
Translator: | Robert Seymour Bridges, 1844-1930 |
Tune: | O WELT, ICH MUSS DICH LASSEN |
Composer (melody, attr.): | Heinrich Isaac, 1450?-1517 |
Harmonizer: | Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750 |
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 heavenly splendor
breaks forth in starlight tender
from myriad worlds unknown;
and we, this marvel seeing,
forget our selfish being
for joy of beauty not our own.
3 Though long our mortal blindness
has missed God's lovingkindness
and plunged us into strife;
yet 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 |
Author: | Paul Gerhardt, 1607-1676 |
Translator: | Robert Seymour Bridges, 1844-1930 |
Meter: | 776. 778 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1985 |
Topic: | Compline |
Source: | Other translators also |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | O WELT, ICH MUSS DICH LASSEN |
Composer (melody, attr.): | Heinrich Isaac, 1450?-1517 |
Harmonizer: | Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750 |
Meter: | 776. 778 |
Key: | F Major |