The Hymnal ‎#451

451. So here hath been dawning

1 So here hath been dawning
Another blue day:
Think, wilt thou let it
Slip useless away?
Out of eternity
This new day is born;
Into eternity,
At night, will return.

2 Behold it aforetime
No eye ever did:
So soon it forever
From all eyes is hid.
Here hath been dawning
Another blue day:
Think, wilt thou let it
Slip useless away?

Amen.

Text Information

• First Line: So here hath been dawning
• Author: Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
• Meter: 6. 5. 6. 5. Irregular
• Publication Date: 1950
• Topic: Children's Hymns; Discipleship and Service; Introits; Orisons

Tune Information

• Name: HARDWICK
• Meter: 6. 5. 6. 5. Irregular
• Incipit: 32253 21155 65345
• Key: F Major
• Copyright: Tune from "The Enlarged Songs of Praise." By permission of the Oxford University Press. Copyright, 1925, by R. Vaughan Williams.