Good Night

The time for parting now has come, we leave these scenes so bright

Author: John McPherson
Tune: MARTYRDOM (Wilson)
Published in 18 hymnals

Author: John McPherson

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Text Information

First Line: The time for parting now has come, we leave these scenes so bright
Title: Good Night
Author: John McPherson
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

Tune

MARTYRDOM (Wilson)

MARTYRDOM was originally an eighteenth-century Scottish folk melody used for the ballad "Helen of Kirkconnel." Hugh Wilson (b. Fenwick, Ayrshire, Scotland, c. 1766; d. Duntocher, Scotland, 1824) adapted MARTYRDOM into a hymn tune in duple meter around 1800. A triple-meter version of the tune was fir…

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[Adown the stream of time we glide]


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