Text: | Softly now the light of day |
Author: | George Washington Doane |
Tune: | HOLLEY |
Composer: | George Hews |
1 Softly now the light of day
Fades upon my sight away;
Free from care, from labor free,
Lord, I would commune with Thee!
2 Thou, Whose all-pervading eye
Naught escapes, without, within,
Pardon each infirmity,
Open fault, and secret sin.
3 Soon for me the light of day
Shall for ever pass away;
Then, from sin and sorrow free,
Take me, Lord, to dwell with Thee.
4 Thou, Who, sinless, yet hast known
All of man's infirmity,
Then, from Thine eternal throne,
Jesus, look with pitying eye.
Amen.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Softly now the light of day |
Author: | George Washington Doane (1831) |
Meter: | 7 7, 7 7. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1917 |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | HOLLEY |
Composer: | George Hews (1835) |
Meter: | 7 7, 7 7. |
Key: | E♭ Major |