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Text:The duteous day now closeth
Author:Paul Gerhardt, 1607-1676
Translator:Robert Seymour Bridges, 1844-1930
Tune:O WELT, ICH MUSS DICH LASSEN
Composer (melody, attr.):Heinrich Isaac, 1450?-1517
Harmonizer:Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750

46. The duteous day now closeth

1 The duteous day now closeth,
each flower and tree reposeth,
shade creeps o'er wild and wood:
let us, as night is falling,
on God our Maker calling,
give thanks to him, the Giver good.

2 Now all the heavenly splendor
breaks forth in starlight tender
from myriad worlds unknown;
and we, this marvel seeing,
forget our selfish being
for joy of beauty not our own.

3 Though long our mortal blindness
has missed God's lovingkindness
and plunged us into strife;
yet when life's day is over,
shall death's fair night discover
the fields of everlasting life.

Text Information
First Line: The duteous day now closeth
Author: Paul Gerhardt, 1607-1676
Translator: Robert Seymour Bridges, 1844-1930
Meter: 776. 778
Language: English
Publication Date: 1985
Topic: Compline
Source: Other translators also
Tune Information
Name: O WELT, ICH MUSS DICH LASSEN
Composer (melody, attr.): Heinrich Isaac, 1450?-1517
Harmonizer: Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750
Meter: 776. 778
Key: F Major



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