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Text: | Silently the shades of evening |
Author: | Dr. C. C. Cox, 1816-1882 |
Tune: | SLINGSBY |
Composer: | Edmund S. Carter, 1845- |
1 Silently the shades of evening
Gather round my lowly door;
Silently they bring before me
Faces I shall see no more.
2 O the lost, the unforgotten,
Though the world be oft forgot!
O the shrouded and the lonely,
In our hearts they perish not!
3 Living in the silent hours,
Where our spirits only blend,
They, unlinked with earthly trouble,
We, still hoping for its end.
4 How such holy memories cluster,
Like the stars when storms are past,
Pointing up to that fair heaven
We may hope to gain at last.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Silently the shades of evening |
Author: | Dr. C. C. Cox, 1816-1882 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1917 |
Topic: | Departed, memories of the; Heart: Saddened; The Church and the Kingdom of God: Evening |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | SLINGSBY |
Composer: | Edmund S. Carter, 1845- |
Meter: | 8.7.8.7 |
Key: | A Major |