17. The sun is sinking fast

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 for ever mine.

Amen.

Text Information
First Line: The sun is sinking fast
Translator: Edward Caswall (1858)
Meter: 6.4.6.6
Language: English
Publication Date: 1916
Topic: Daily Prayer: Evening
Source: Latin
Tune Information
Name: ST. COLUMBA
Composer: Herbert S. Irons (1861)
Meter: 6.4.6.6
Incipit: 54322 13562 55323
Key: F Major



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