Text: | The day you gave us, Lord, is ended |
Author: | John Ellerton, 1826-93 |
Tune: | ST CLEMENT |
Composer: | Clement Cotterill Scholefield, 1839-1904 |
1 The day you gave us, Lord, is ended,
the darkness falls at your behest;
to you our morning hymns ascended,
your praise shall sanctify our rest.
2 We thank you that your church unsleeping,
while earth rolls onwards into light,
through all the world her watch is keeping,
and rests not now by day or night.
3 Across each continent and island
as dawn leads on another day,
the voice of prayer is never silent,
nor dies the strain of praise away.
4 The sun that bids us rest is waking
our friends beneath the western sky,
and hour by hour fresh lips are making
your wondrous doings heard on high.
5 So be it, Lord; your throne shall never,
like earth's proud empires, pass away;
your kingdom stands, and grows for ever,
till all your creatures own your sway.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | The day you gave us, Lord, is ended |
Author: | John Ellerton, 1826-93 (alt.) |
Meter: | 98.98 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1999 |
Scripture: | ; |
Topic: | People of God |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | ST CLEMENT |
Composer: | Clement Cotterill Scholefield, 1839-1904 |
Meter: | 98.98 |
Key: | G Major |