The Hymnal ‎#17

17. The sun is sinking fast

1 The sun is sinking fast,
The daylight dies:
Let love awake, and pay
Her evening sacrifice.

2 As Christ upon the cross
His head inclined,
And to His Father's hands
His parting soul resigned;

3 So now herself my soul
Would wholly give
Into His sacred charge,
In Whom all spirits live;

4 So now beneath His eye
Would calmly rest,
Without a wish or thought
Abiding in the breast;

5 Save that His will be done,
Whate'er betide;
Dead to herself, and dead
In Him to all beside.

6 Thus would I live; yet now
Not I, but He,
In all His power and love,
Henceforth alive in me.

7 One sacred Trinity,
One Lord divine,
May I be ever His,
And He for ever mine.

Amen.

Text Information

• First Line: The sun is sinking fast
• Translator: Edward Caswall (1858)
• Meter: 6.4.6.6
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1916
• Topic: Daily Prayer: Evening
• Source: Latin

Tune Information

• Name: ST. COLUMBA
• Composer: Herbert S. Irons (1861)
• Meter: 6.4.6.6
• Incipit: 54322 13562 55323
• Key: F Major