When day is done and twilight shadows

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When day is done and twilight shadows

Author: Haldor Lillenas
Tune: [When day is done and twilight shadows]
Published in 1 hymnal

Audio files: MIDI

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1 When day is done and twilight shadows
Have flung their mantle o’er the sky;
O often think of life’s sweet evening hour
That I shall come to by and by.

Refrain:
When day is done and life is ended,
And I the vict’ry shall have won,
Then I shall know the hallowed joys of heav’n,
When day is done, when day is done.

2 When day is done and friends have parted,
When weary toilers find repose;
My heart with glad anticipation,
Turns to the hour when life shall close. [Refrain]

3 When day is done and labors ended,
Have bro’t the night of peaceful rest,
I know that I shall find a welcome
Within the homeland of the blest. [Refrain]

Source: New Songs of Praise and Power 1-2-3 Combined #34

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Author: Haldor Lillenas

Rv Haldor Lillenas DMus Norway/USA 1885-1959. Born at Stord, near Bergen, Norway, his father sold their 15 acre farm in Norway and emigrated to the U.S., buying a farm in Colton, SD. After he built a sod house, the family (wife and three chldren) also came to SD in 1887. They moved to Astoria, Oregon in 1889, where Lillenas learned English and began writing song lyrics at an early age. In 1900 the family moved again to Roseville, MN, where he worked as a farm laborer and began attending a Lutheran high school at Hawick, MN. He sold a few songs at age 19. At age 21 he began writing more songs, encouraged by some earlier ones becoming popular (“He set me free” was one). His mother died in 1906 and his father returned to ND, but Li… Go to person page >

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