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දවස ගෙවී යන්නේ

දවස ගෙවී යන්නේ (Davasa gevī yannē)

Author: Mary A. Lathbury; Translator: J. R. Perera
Tune: CHAUTAUQUA (Sherwin)
Published in 1 hymnal

Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 ගෙවී යන්නේ
අඳුරද ළංවන්නේ
තරු යුත් අහස් තුටා
බලමින් රෑවූ විටා
ඔබ වඳිම්

සුද්ද සුද්ද සුද්ද දෙව් ස්වාමිනී
සග මිහි තුති දෙත්
සග මිහි ගී නඟත්
ඔබ හට

2 ජීවනේ කුමරුනේ
මෙත් ගුණෙන් බලමිනේ
ඔබගේම ළයට
රැස් කරන් අප තුට
ඔබ ලඟයි

3 රැය පැමිණි විට
රකිනු ළඟ සිට
ඔබ බලය තෙද
වණමින් අප සිත්ද
ඔසවමු

4 අප ජීවිත ගෙවී
යන කල වෙන්වෙවී
දෙව් දූතුන්ගෙ රජුනී
දක්වනු විගසිනි
සග තෙද

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #15461

Author: Mary A. Lathbury

Lathbury, Mary Ann, was born in Manchester, Ontario County, New York, Aug. 10, 1841. Miss Lathbury writes somewhat extensively for the American religious periodical press, and is well and favourably known (see the Century Magazine, Jan., 1885, p. 342). Of her hymns which have come into common use we have:— 1. Break Thou the bread of life. Communion with God. A "Study Song" for the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle, written in the summer of 1880. It is in Horder's (Eng.) Congregational Hymns, 1884. 2. Day is dying in the west. Evening. "Written at the request of the Rev. John H. Vincent, D.D., in the summer of 1880. It was a "Vesper Song," and has been frequently used in the responsive services of the Chautauqua Literary and Sc… Go to person page >

Translator: J. R. Perera

(no biographical information available about J. R. Perera.) Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: දවස ගෙවී යන්නේ (Davasa gevī yannē)
Title: දවස ගෙවී යන්නේ
English Title: Day is dying in the west
Author: Mary A. Lathbury
Translator: J. R. Perera
Language: Sinhala
Copyright: Public Domain

Tune

CHAUTAUQUA (Sherwin)

William Fiske Sherwin (b. Buckland, MA, 1826; d. Boston, MA, 1888) composed EVENING PRAISE (also called CHAUTAUQUA) in 1877 as the tune to Mary A. Lathbury's text "Day Is Dying in the West." The text and tune were included in the hymnal (1878), and the song was sung at vespers at the Lake Chautauqu…

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