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Text:How oft the day of God returns
Author:Simon Brown
Tune:EVAN
Arranger:William Henry Havergal

308b. How oft the day of God returns

1 How oft the day of God returns
To shed its quick'ning beams;
And yet how slow devotion burns,
How languid are its flames.

2 Accept our faint attempts to love;
Our sins, O Lord, forgive;
We would be like Thy saints above,
And praise Thee while we live.

3 Increase, O Lord, our faith and hope,
And fit us to ascend
Where the assembly ne'er breaks up,
Thy worship ne'er shall end;

4 When we shall with the ransomed throng,
The Savior's praise proclaim,
And give in an eternal song
All glory to His Name.

Text Information
First Line: How oft the day of God returns
Author: Simon Brown (1720, abr. and alt.)
Meter: C. M. No. 2
Language: English
Publication Date: 1908
Topic: The Catechism: Sunday Evening
Notes: Public Domain.
Tune Information
Name: EVAN
Arranger: William Henry Havergal (1847)
Meter: C. M. No. 2
Key: A♭ Major
Source: Welsh Melody
Notes: Public Domain.



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