Text: | Now, on Land and Sea Descending |
Author: | Samuel Longfellow |
Tune: | VESPER HYMN |
Composer (attr.): | Dimitri S. Bortniansky |
1 Now, on land and sea descending,
Brings the night its peace profound;
Let our vesper hymn be blending
With the holy calm around.
Jubilate! Jubilate!
Jubilate! Amen!
Let our vesper hymn be blending
With the holy calm around.
2 Soon as dies the sunset glory,
Stars of heaven shine out above,
Telling still the ancient story -
Their Creator’s changeless love.
Jubilate! Jubilate!
Jubilate! Amen!
Telling still the ancient story -
Their Creator’s changeless love.
3 Now, our wants and burdens leaving
To God’s care Who cares for all,
Cease we fearing, cease we grieving:
At God's touch our burdens fall.
Jubilate! Jubilate!
Jubilate! Amen!
Cease we fearing, cease we grieving,
At God's touch our burdens fall.
4 As the darkness deepens o’er us
Lo! eternal stars arise;
Hope and faith and love rise glorious,
Shining in the Spirit’s skies.
Jubilate! Jubilate!
Jubilate! Amen!
Hope and faith and love rise glorious,
Shining in the Spirit’s skies.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Now, on land and sea descending |
Title: | Now, on Land and Sea Descending |
Author: | Samuel Longfellow (1859) |
Meter: | 8.7.8.7.8.6.8.7 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1990 |
Topic: | Evening hymns |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | VESPER HYMN |
Composer (attr.): | Dimitri S. Bortniansky |
Meter: | 8.7.8.7.8.6.8.7 |
Key: | E♭ Major |
Source: | Stevenson's A Selection of Popular National Airs, 1818, as in |