Działaj, bo noc nadejdzie

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Działaj, bo noc nadejdzie

Author: Mrs. Harry Coghill (1854)
Tune: WORK SONG (Mason)
Published in 1 hymnal

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1 Działaj, bo noc nadejdzie!
Spójrz, młoda jutrznia lśni!
Działaj o wczesnym ranku,
za twoich młodych dni.
Sw młodociane siły
w ofierze bliźnim złóż.
Działaj, gdy noc zapadnie,
to nic nie zdziałasz już.

2 Działaj, nim noc nadejdzie!
Choć w dzień doskwiera znǿj,
choć dręczy żar południa,
ty walczysz dobry bǿj!
Póki lśni jasne słońce,
siły zapałem mnóż!
Działaj—gdy noc zapadnie,
to nic nie zdziałasz już.

3 Działaj, bo noc nadchodzi!
Już się nachyla dzień
i światem wnet owładnie
chłodny i mroczny cień.
Bǿg wzmocni twoje siły,
choć gasną blaski zórz!
Działaj, gdy noc zapadnie,
to nic nie zdziałasz już.

Source: Śpiewnik Ewangelicki: Codzienna modlitwa, pieśń, medytacja, nabożeństwo #529

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Author: Mrs. Harry Coghill

Coghill, Annie Louisa, née Walker, daughter of Robert Walker, was born at Kiddermore, Staffordshire, in 1836, and married Harry Coghill in 1884. During a residence for some time in Canada several of her poetical pieces were printed in the Canadian newspapers. These were gathered together and published c. 1859 in her Leaves from the Backwoods. In addition to novels, plays for children, and magazine work, she edited the Autobiography and Letters of her cousin, Mrs. Oliphant, in 1898. Her popular hymn,"Work, for the night is coming," p. 317, ii., was written in Canada in 1854, and published in a Canadian newspaper, from which it passed, without any acknowledgement of the authorship, into Ira D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos. Authorized te… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Działaj, bo noc nadejdzie
English Title:	Work, for the night is coming
Author:	Mrs. Harry Coghill (1854)
Language:	Polish
Copyright:	Public Domain