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LIGHT DECLINING

LIGHT DECLINING

Composer: James Edmund Jones (1917)
Published in 1 hymnal


Audio files: MIDI

Composer: James Edmund Jones

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Tune Information

Title: LIGHT DECLINING
Composer: James Edmund Jones (1917)
Meter: 8.7.8.3
Incipit: 34355 45665 67653
Key: D Major

Texts

Vesper Hymn

On the wings of light declining
Sinks the westering sun to sleep:
Lord, alike in dark or shining,
Thy pure eyes their vigil keep.
Let Thy light, which faileth never,
Round me shine, though day depart;
And, though night prevaileth, ever
Flood the chambers of my heart.

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The Book of Common Praise #811D

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