When the light of day is waning

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When the light of day is waning

Author: Edmund Martin Geldart
Tune: VESPER HYMN (Bortnianski)
Published in 5 hymnals

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	The Art of Hymn Playing Volume II - Intr…

Author: Edmund Martin Geldart

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Text Information

First Line:	When the light of day is waning
Author:	Edmund Martin Geldart
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Tune

VESPER HYMN (Bortnianski)

VESPER HYMN appeared in John A. Stevenson's Selection of Popular National Airs (1818) as a setting for Thomas Moore's "Hark! The Vesper Hymn Is Stealing." A footnote in that hymnal explained that Stevenson had added what is-now the first line of the retrain to a "Russian Air." Some later hymnals att…

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