The sun is set, the twilight's o'er. Bishop E. H. Bickersteth. [Holy Communion.] Written in 1869 for the author's Hymnal Companion, in which it was published in 1870 in 5 stanzas of 4 lines. It was also included in his Two Brothers and Other Poems, 1871. Outside of the Hymnal Companion its use is limited.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)