The day is gone, the weary sun declining

Author: H. Mill

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Der Tag vergeht, die müde Sonne sinket. [Evening.] Included as No. 2764 in Knapp's Evanglischer Lieder-Schatz, 1837, in 6 stanzas of 4 lines. Translated as:—
The day is gone, the weary sun declining, in full in Dr. H. Mill's Horae Germanica, 1845 (edition 1856, p. 22), repeated, omitting stanza v., as No. 948 in the American Lutheran General Synod's Collection, 1850. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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Hymns: selected and original, for public and private worship (4th ed. 3rd rev. ed.) (1857), p.613