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Text:Now the Day is Over
Author:Sabine Baring-Gould
Tune:[Now the day is over]
Composer:Joseph Barnaby

36. Now the Day is Over

1 Now the day is over;
Night is drawing nigh.
Shadows of the evening
Steal across the sky.

2 Jesus, give the weary
Calm and sweet repose;
With Thy tend'rest blessing
May our eyelids close.

3 Grant to little children
Visions bright of Thee;
Guard the sailors tossing
On the deep, blue sea.

4 Thro' the long night watches
May Thine angels spread
Their white wings above me,
Watching 'round my bed.

5 When the morning wakens,
Then may I arise,
Pure and fresh and sinless
In Thy holy eyes.

Text Information
First Line: Now the day is over, Night is drawing nigh
Title: Now the Day is Over
Author: Sabine Baring-Gould
Language: English
Publication Date: 1978
Tune Information
Name: [Now the day is over]
Composer: Joseph Barnaby
Key: A♭ Major



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