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Hail, Tranquil Hour Of Closing Day
Author: Leonard Bacon Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 66 hymnals First Line: Hail tranquil hour of closing day! Lyrics: 1 Hail tranquil hour of closing day!
Begone, disturbing care!
And look, my soul, from earth away
To Him who heareth prayer.
2 How sweet the tear of penitence,
Before His throne of grace,
While, to the contrite spirit’s sense,
He shows His smiling face.
3 How sweet, through long remembered years,
His mercies to recall,
And, pressed with wants and griefs and fears,
To trust His love for all.
4 How sweet to look, in thoughtful hope,
Beyond this fading sky,
And hear Him call His children up
To His fair home on high.
5 Calmly the day forsakes our heaven
To dawn beyond the west;
So let my soul, in life’s last even,
Retire to glorious rest. Used With Tune: TWENTY FOURTH Text Sources: Psalms & Hymns for Christian Use and Worship (General Association of Connecticut, 1845)
Hail, Tranquil Hour Of Closing Day
TWENTY FOURTH
Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 144 hymnals Tune Sources: Repository of Sacred Music, Part Second, by John Wyeth (Harrisburg, Penn.: 1813) Variusly attributed to Amzi or Lucius Chapin Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 51232 16551 23455 Used With Text: Hail, Tranquil Hour Of Closing Day
TWENTY FOURTH
ST. LEONARD
Appears in 237 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: H. Hiles Incipit: 12432 21112 22222 Used With Text: Hail, tranquil hour of closing day!
ST. LEONARD
Hail, Tranquil Hour of Closing Day
Author: L. Bacon Hymnal: Gloria Deo #328 (1901) First Line: Hail, tranquil hour of closing day! Lyrics: 1 Hail, tranquil hour of closing day!
Begone, disturbing care!
And look, my soul, from earth away
To Him who heareth prayer.
2 How sweet the tear of penitence,
Before His throne of grace,
While to the contrite spirit’s sense,
He shows his smiling face.
3 How sweet, thro’ long remembered years,
His mercies to recall,
And pressed by wants, and griefs, and fears,
To trust His love for all.
4 How sweet to look, in thoughtful hope,
Beyond this fading sky,
And hear Him call His children up
To His fair home on high.
5 Calmly the day forsakes our heaven
To dawn beyond the west;
So let my soul in life’s last ev’n,
Retire to glorious rest. Topics: Prayer Languages: English Tune Title: SERENITY
Hail, Tranquil Hour of Closing Day
Hail, Tranquil Hour Of Closing Day
Author: Leonard Bacon Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #10194 Meter: 8.6.8.6 D First Line: Hail tranquil hour of closing day! Lyrics: 1 Hail tranquil hour of closing day!
Begone, disturbing care!
And look, my soul, from earth away
To Him who heareth prayer.
2 How sweet the tear of penitence,
Before His throne of grace,
While, to the contrite spirit’s sense,
He shows His smiling face.
3 How sweet, through long remembered years,
His mercies to recall,
And, pressed with wants and griefs and fears,
To trust His love for all.
4 How sweet to look, in thoughtful hope,
Beyond this fading sky,
And hear Him call His children up
To His fair home on high.
5 Calmly the day forsakes our heaven
To dawn beyond the west;
So let my soul, in life’s last even,
Retire to glorious rest. Languages: English Tune Title: TWENTY FOURTH
Hail, Tranquil Hour Of Closing Day
Hail, Tranquil Hour of Closing Day
Author: L. Bacon Hymnal: The Friends' Hymnal, a Collection of Hymns and Tunes for the Public Worship of the Society #a328 (1908) Languages: English Tune Title: SERENITY
Hail, Tranquil Hour of Closing Day
William Vincent Wallace
1812 - 1865 Person Name: Wm. V. Wallace Composer of "SERENITY" in Gloria Deo
William Vincent Wallace
Henry Hiles
1826 - 1904 Person Name: H. Hiles Composer of "ST. LEONARD" in University Hymns Born: December 31, 1826, Shrewsbury, England.
Died: October 20, 1904, Worthing, England.
Hiles was educated at Oxford (BMus 1862, DMus 1867). He played the organ at Shrewsbury, as his brother’s deputy (1846); Bishopwearmouth (1847); St. Michael’s, Wood Street (1859); the Blind Asylum, Manchester (1859); Bowden (1861); and St. Paul’s, Manchester (1863-67). He lectured in harmony and composition at Owen’s College in Manchester (1867) and Victoria University (1879), and was Professor at the Manchester College of Music (1893). He also conducted musical societies in Lancashire and Yorkshire, and owned and edited the Quarterly Music Review (1885-88). He retired in 1904, moving to Pinner, near Harrow. His works include:
Twelve Tunes to Original or Favourite Hymns, 1867
Harmony of Sounds, three editions: 1871, 1872, 1879
Wesley Tune Book, 1872 (editor)
Grammar of Music, 1879
First Lessons in Singing (Manchester: Hime & Addison, 1881)
Part Writing or Modern Counterpoint (Novello: 1884)
Harmony or Counterpoint, 1889
Harmony, Choral or Counterpun
--www.hymntime.com/tch/
Henry Hiles
Leonard Bacon
1802 - 1881 Person Name: L. Bacon Author of "Hail, Tranquil Hour of Closing Day" in Gloria Deo Leonard Bacon, D.D., was born in Detroit (where his father was a missionary to the Indians), February 19, 1802, and educated at Yale college and at Andover. In 1825 he was ordained Pastor of the Centre Church, New Haven, and retained that charge until 1866, when he was appointed Professor of Theology in Yale Divinity School. This professorship he resigned in 1871; but till his death in 1881, he was Lecturer on Church Polity. He died December 23, 1881. Dr. Bacon rendered important service to hymnology both as writer and compiler. While a student at Andover, he edited an important and now rare tract entitled Hymns and Sacred Songs for the Monthly Concert [of Prayer for Missions], Andover, September 1823. This contained the three hymns following, which are his:-
Weep not for the saint that ascends. Death of a Missionary.
Land where the bones of our father are sleeping. Missions. This was brought into notice in Great Britain through its insertion in the Evangelical Magazine, March, 1824.
Wake the song of jubilee. Missions. Of these No. 1 is found in Lyra Sac. Amer., p. 6 and No. 3 was adopted, with alterations, by Pratt in his Ps. and Hys. (Lond. Seeley & Co,. 1829), fro which it passed into Greene and Mason's Church Psalmody, 1831, and the Church Psalmist of the Evangelical Christians (N. Y., 1845, 7th ed.). This altered text, with some further changes, was adopted by the author in his Appendix to T. Dwight's revised ed. of Watt's Psalms, 1833. This Appendix also contained three newe hymns by him, viz.:-
Though now the nations sit beneath. Missions. This is based on a hymn by Sarah Slinn, "Arise in all Thy splendour, Lord" (q.v.), which Dr. Bacon had partly rewritten for his Andover Tract, above noted. In the Appendix to Dwight he substituted new verses for what remained of her's in the Tract, and then justly claimed the whole as his own.
O Thou Who hast died to redeem us from hell. Holy Communion.
God of our fathers, to Thy throne. Thanksgiving. In 1845 Dr. Bacon was joint compiler with Dr. E. T. Fitch, and several others, of Psalms & Hymns for Christian Use and Worship,, pub. "by the General Association of Connecticut."
To this collection he contributed the four hymns following:-
Here, Lord of life and light, to Thee. Institution of a Minister. This was written March 9, 1825, for his installation as pastor of the First Church, New Haven, and first published as above, No. 559, in 4 stanzas of 4 lines, and headed "Ordination in an ancient New England Church."
O God, beneath They guiding hand. American Anniversary Hymn. This is a favorite American Anniversary hymn. It is abbreviated and altered from his hymn, "The Sabbath morn is as bright and calm," which he wrote for the Bicentenary of New Haven, 1833. In this revised form it was first published as above, No. 619, in 5 stanzas of 4 lines, and appointed "For the twenty-second of December."
O God of Abraham, ever sure. Prayer on behalf of the Young. This was written as a substitute for Mrs. Hyde's "Dear Saviour, if these lambs should stray," the use of which was refused by the owners of the copyright of Nettleton's Village Hymns (1824). In the Psalms & Hymns, it is No. 635, in 4 stanzas of 4 lines, and headed "Prayer for the children of the Church."
Hail, tranquil hour of closing day. Evening. This popular hymns was written under the same circumstances as the preceding, and as a substitute for Mr.s Brown's Twilight hymn, "I love to steal awhile away." It is No. 706 of the Psalms & Hymns, 1845, in 5 stanzas of 4 lines, and entitled "Evening Twilight."
How sweet, thro' long remembered years. Evening. In the Church Praise Book., N.Y., 1882, No. 15, is composed of stanzas iii.-v. of No. 10.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Leonard Bacon
