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Author: Franz M. Franzen Appears in 2 hymnals Lyrics: 1 When vesper bells are calling The hour of rest and prayer, When evening shades are falling, And I must hence repair, I seek my chamber narrow, Nor my brief day deplore, For I shall see the morrow Where night shall be no more. 2 O take me in Thy keeping, Dear Father good and just; Let not my soul be sleeping In sin, and pride, and lust. If in my life Thou guide me According to Thy will, I may in death confide me Into Thy keeping still. Amen.

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OLD 130TH PSALM

Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 39 hymnals Tune Sources: Genevan Psalter, 1556. Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 51232 17312 34554 Used With Text: When Vesper Bells Are Calling

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When Vesper Bells Are Calling

Author: Franz M. Franzen Hymnal: The Hymnal and Order of Service #565 (1937) Lyrics: 1 When vesper bells are calling The hour of rest and prayer, When evening shades are falling, And I must hence repair, I seek my chamber narrow, Nor my brief day deplore, For I shall see the morrow Where night shall be no more. 2 O take me in Thy keeping, Dear Father good and just; Let not my soul be sleeping In sin, and pride, and lust. If in my life Thou guide me According to Thy will, I may in death confide me Into Thy keeping still. Amen.

When Vesper Bells Are Calling

Author: Frans Mikael Franzén Hymnal: The Hymnal and Order of Service #565 (1926) Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Lyrics: 1 When vesper bells are calling The hour of rest and prayer, When evening shades are falling, And I must hence repair, I seek my chamber narrow, Nor my brief day deplore, For I shall see the morrow Where night shall be no more. 2 O take me in Thy keeping, Dear Father good and just; Let not my soul be sleeping In sin, and pride, and lust. If in my life Thou guide me According to Thy will, I may in death confide me Into Thy keeping still. Amen. Topics: Occasional Evening; Evening; Citizenship Languages: English Tune Title: OLD 130TH PSALM

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Frans Michael Franzén

1772 - 1847 Person Name: Frans Mikael Franzén Author of "When Vesper Bells Are Calling" in The Hymnal and Order of Service Franzén, Franz Michael, was born at Uleabôrg, Finland, in 1772, and educated at the University of Abo, where he became Librarian and Professor of Literary History. He was subsequently Minister at Kumla, Orebro, Sweden, and then of Santa Clara, in Stockholm. He was consecrated Bishop of Hernosand, in 1841, and died there in 1847. (See Supplement to Longfellow's Poets and Poetry of Europe.) Of his pieces one is in English common use. It begins "Jesum haf i ständigt minne," translated by Mrs. Charles in her Christian Life in Song, 1858, p. 250, as "Jesus in Thy memory keep" (Looking unto Jesus). Usually it begins with stanza ii., "Look to Jesus, till, reviving." --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)