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Hymn score of: Time's sun is fast setting - The night cometh (Horatius Bonar/Johannes Thomas Rüegg)

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Time's sun is fast setting - The night cometh
(Horatius Bonar/Johannes Thomas Rüegg)

The night cometh.

1. Time's sun is fast setting,
  its twilight is nigh,
its evening is falling
  in cloud o'er the sky;
its shadows are stretching
  in ominous gloom;
its midnight approaches,
  the midnight of doom.
    Then haste, sinner, haste,
      there is mercy for thee,
    and wrath is preparing, –
      flee, lingerer, flee! (PDF - Midi)

2. Rides forth the fierce tempest
  on the wing of the cloud;
the moan of the night-blast
  is fitful and loud;
the mountains are heaving,
  the forests are bowed,
the ocean is surging,
  earth gathers its shroud.
    Then haste, sinner, haste,
      there is mercy for thee,
    and wrath is preparing, –
      flee, lingerer, flee!

3. The vision is nearing,
  the Judge and the throne!
the voice of the Angel
  proclaims "It is done."
On the whirl of the tempest
  its Ruler shall come,
and the blaze of his glory
  flash out from its gloom.
    Then haste, sinner, haste,
      there is mercy for thee,
    and wrath is preparing, –
      flee, lingerer, flee!

4. With clouds he is coming!
  His people shall sing,
with gladness they hail him
  Redeemer and King.
The iron rod wielding,
  the rod of his ire,
he cometh to kindle
  earth's last fatal fire!
    Then haste, sinner, haste,
      there is mercy for thee,
    and wrath is preparing, –
      flee, lingerer, flee!

Horatius Bonar, Hymns of Faith and Hope I, 1878, 34-36.

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