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Text:Saviour, breathe an evening blessing
Author:James Edmeston

23. Saviour, breathe an evening blessing

1. Saviour, breathe an evening blessing,
Ere repose our spirits seal;
Sin and want we come confessing:
Thou canst save, and Thou canst heal.

2. Though the night be dark and dreary,
Darkness cannot hide from Thee;
Thou art He who, never weary,
Watchest where thy people be.

3. Though destruction walk around us,
Though the arrow past us fly,
Angel-guards from Thee surround us;
We are safe, if Thou art nigh.

4. Should swift death this night o'ertake us,
And our couch become our tomb,
May the morn in heaven awake us,
Clad in light and deathless bloom.

Amen.

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First Line: Saviour, breathe an evening blessing
Author: James Edmeston (1820)
Publication Date: 1895
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