Darker and darker fall around, The shadows of the night

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Darker and darker fall around. [Evening.] Appeared in William Young's Catholic Choralist, 1842, No. 60, in 13 stanzas of 4 lines as "Hymn of the Calabrian Shepherds," and repeated, abridged and altered, in the Arundel Hymnary, 1902. In the Unitarian Hymns of the Spirit, 1864, No. 60, sts. i.-iv. of this text and two stanzas, possibly by S. Longfellow, the editor, were given as, "As darker, darker, fall around." This cento, usually abbreviated, is found in several collections in Great Britain and America, including the Scotch Church Hymnary, 1898, The Pilgrim Hymnal, 1904, and others. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

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Darker and darker fall around. [Evening.] Appeared in William Young's Catholic Choralist, 1842, No. 60, in 13 stanzas of 4 lines as "Hymn of the Calabrian Shepherds," and repeated, abridged and altered, in the Arundel Hymnary, 1902. In the Unitarian Hymns of the Spirit, 1864, No. 60, sts. i.-iv. of this text and two stanzas, possibly by S. Longfellow, the editor, were given as, "As darker, darker, fall around." This cento, usually abbreviated, is found in several collections in Great Britain and America, including the Scotch Church Hymnary, 1898, The Pilgrim Hymnal, 1904, and others. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

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