Text: | Savior, Breathe an Evening Blessing |
Author: | James Edmeston (1791-1867) |
Tune: | EVENING PRAYER |
Composer: | George C. Stebbins (1846-1945) |
1 Savior, breathe an evening blessing,
Ere repose our spirits seal;
Sin and want we come confessing;
Thou canst save, and Thou canst heal.
2 Though the night be dark and dreary,
Darkness cannot hide from Thee;
Thou art He who, never weary,
Watchest where Thy people be.
3 Though destruction walk around us.
Though the arrow past us fly,
Angel guards from Thee Surround us,
We are safe if Thou art nigh.
4 Should swift death this night o’re-take us,
And our couch become our tomb,
May the morn of glory wake us,
Clad in light and deathless bloom.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Savior, breathe an evening blessing |
Title: | Savior, Breathe an Evening Blessing |
Author: | James Edmeston (1791-1867) (1820) |
Meter: | 8.7.8.7. |
Publication Date: | 1985 |
Topic: | Worship: Evening Worship |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | EVENING PRAYER |
Composer: | George C. Stebbins (1846-1945) (1878) |
Meter: | 8.7.8.7. |
Incipit: | 56655 11716 55676 |
Key: | A♭ Major |