Text: | Now While the Day in Trailing Splendor |
Author: | Frederick Lucian Hosmer, 1840-1929 |
Tune: | LEE |
Composer: | Thomas Oboe Lee, 1945- |
1 Now while the day in trailing splendor
gives way to glories of the night,
thanksgiving to thy name we render,
O God of darkness and of light.
Each day from thee we have our being,
in all this wondrous order set;
thine omnipresence blinds our seeing,
and in thy gifts we thee forget.
2 Touch thou our eyes, their blindness healing,
till all this common earth and air
to our illumined sight and feeling
thy glory and thyself declare;
till storied marvel, sign, and token,
all pale before the nearer thought
of such vast miracles unbroken
from hour to hour around us brought.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Now while the day in trailing splendor |
Title: | Now While the Day in Trailing Splendor |
Author: | Frederick Lucian Hosmer, 1840-1929 |
Meter: | 9.8.9.8.D |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1993 |
Topic: | Transcending Mystery and Wonder: Evening; The Living Tradition; Prayer and Meditation |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | LEE |
Composer: | Thomas Oboe Lee, 1945- |
Meter: | 9.8.9.8.D |
Key: | F Major or modal |
Copyright: | © 1992 Unitarian Universalist Association |