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Text: | The Day You Gave Us, Lord, Is Ended |
Author: | John Ellerton |
Tune: | ST. CLEMENT |
Composer: | Clement C. Scholefield |
1 The day you gave us, Lord, is ended,
the darkness falls at your behest;
to you our morning hymns ascended,
your praise shall hallow now our rest.
2 We thank you that your church, unsleeping
while earth rolls onward into light,
through all the world her watch is keeping,
and rests not now by day or night.
3 As o'er each continent and island
the dawn leads on another day,
the voice of prayer is never silent,
nor dies the strain of praise away.
4 The sun, that bids us rest, is waking
our brethren 'neath the western sky,
and hour by hour fresh lips are making
your wondrous doings heard on high.
5 So be it, Lord; your throne shall never,
like earth's proud empires, pass away:
but stand, and rule, and grow forever,
till all your creatures own your sway.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | The day you gave us, Lord, is ended |
Title: | The Day You Gave Us, Lord, Is Ended |
Author: | John Ellerton (1870; Alt. 1990, mod.) |
Meter: | 9.8.9.8. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1990 |
Scripture: | |
Topic: | The Church: Evening; Church: Permanence of; Church: Triumph of(1 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | ST. CLEMENT |
Composer: | Clement C. Scholefield (1874) |
Meter: | 9.8.9.8. |
Key: | G Major |