6388 | The Cyber Hymnal#6389 | 6390 |
Text: | The Sun Is Sinking Fast |
Translator (from Latin): | Edward Caswall |
Tune: | TWILIGHT |
Composer: | J. H. Hopkins |
Media: | MIDI file |
1. The sun is sinking fast,
The daylight dies;
Let love awake, and pay
Her evening sacrifice.
2. As Christ upon the cross
His head inclined,
And to His Father’s hands
His parting soul resigned;
3. So now herself my soul
Would wholly give
Into His sacred charge
In whom all spirits live;
4. So now beneath His eye
Would calmly rest,
Without a wish or thought
Abiding in the breast;
5. Save that His will be done,
Whate’er betide;
Dead to herself, and dead
In Him to all beside.
6. Thus would I live: yet now
Not I, but He,
In all His power and love,
Henceforth alive in me.
7. One sacred Trinity,
One Lord divine,
May I be ever His,
And He forever mine.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | The sun is sinking fast |
Title: | The Sun Is Sinking Fast |
Latin Title: | So praeceps rapitur, proxima nox adest |
Translator (from Latin): | Edward Caswall |
Meter: | 64.66 |
Language: | English |
Source: | Translation in Masque of Mary, 1858; Latin, possible 18th century |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Notes: | Alternate tune: ST. COLUMBA (IRONS), Herbert S. Irons, 1861 |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | TWILIGHT |
Composer: | J. H. Hopkins |
Meter: | 64.66 |
Incipit: | 32176 55615 56712 |
Key: | G Major |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Media | |
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Adobe Acrobat image: | Adobe Acrobat image (Cyber Hymnal) |
MIDI file: | MIDI File (Cyber Hymnal) |
Noteworthy Composer score: | Noteworthy Composer score (Cyber Hymnal) |
XML score: | XML score |