5450. Our Day of Praise Is Done

1. Our day of praise is done;
The evening shadows fall;
But pass not from us with the sun,
True Light that lightenest all.

2. Around the throne on high,
Where night can never be,
The white robed harpers of the sky
Bring ceaseless hymns to Thee.

3. Too faint our anthems here;
Too soon of praise we tire;
But O the strains, how full and clear,
Of that eternal choir!

4. Yet, Lord, to Thy dear will
If Thou attune the heart,
We in Thine angels’ music still
May bear our lower part.

5. ’Tis Thine each soul to calm,
Each wayward thought reclaim,
And make our life a daily psalm
Of glory to Thy name.

6. A little while, and then
Shall come the glorious end;
And songs of angels and of men
In perfect praise shall blend.

Text Information
First Line: Our day of praise is done
Title: Our Day of Praise Is Done
Author: John Ellerton (1869)
Meter: SM
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain
Notes: Written for a choral festival in Nantwich, England, and rewritten in 1869 for the "Supplemental Hymn and Tune Book." In its first form, it was a cento from "The Day Is Past and Done," a translation by John Blew of Grates, "Peracto Jam Die," by Charles Coffin; the rewritten form contains nothing of Blew's hymn, except that the line of thought is the same. Alternate tunes: ALLINGTON, John Hopkins, in Hymns Ancient and Modern, 1875; CARLISLE, Charles Lockhart, 1791
Tune Information
Name: SCHUMANN
Meter: SM
Incipit: 51567 11432 11771
Key: A♭ Major
Source: Cantica Laudis, by Lowell Mason and George J. Webb (New York: Mason & Law, 1850)
Copyright: Public Domain



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