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Text: | The duteous day now closeth |
Author: | Paul Gerhardt, 1607-76 |
Translator: | Robert Bridges, 1844-1930 |
Tune: | INNSBRUCK |
Harmonizer: | J. S. Bach, 1685-1750 |
Transcriber: | Heinrich Isaac |
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 splendour
Breaks forth in starlight tender
From myriad worlds unknown;
And man, the marvel seeing,
Forgets his selfish being,
For joy of beauty not his own.
3 His care he drowneth yonder,
Lost in the abyss of wonder;
To heaven his soul doth steal:
This life he disesteemeth,
The day it is that dreameth,
That doth from truth his vision seal.
4 Awhile his mortal blindness
May miss God’s loving kindness,
And grope in faithless strife:
But 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, 1607-76 |
Translator: | Robert Bridges, 1844-1930 |
Meter: | 776 778 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1986 |
Topic: | Times and Seasons: Evening |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | INNSBRUCK |
Transcriber: | Heinrich Isaac |
Harmonizer: | J. S. Bach, 1685-1750 |
Meter: | 776 778 |
Key: | G Major |