Christ My Song - 818

The day is gone – my soul looks on - Twilight (Johann Anastasius Freylinghausen/Frances Bevan/Johannes Thomas Rüegg)

Twilight.

"Abide with us: for it is toward evening,
and the day is far spent." (Luke 24,29)

    1. The day is gone –
    my soul looks on
  to that eternal Day,
when all our sorrow, all our sin,
  have fled and passed away. (PDF - Midi)

    2. The golden sun
    is sunk and gone,
  thou Light of Heaven above,
thou Glory of eternal day,
  my sunshine and my love.

    3. Each living thing
    lies slumbering
  from care and labour free;
may I, O Lord, be still and watch
  thy hidden work in me.

    4. But when shall cease
    the changefulness
  of morning and of night?
Then when the Glory of the Lord
  is our eternal Light.

    5. No cloud shall come,
    no evening gloom
  on Salem shall descend;
the Lord her everlasting Day,
  her mourning at an end.

    6. All praise to thee!
    Oh there to be
  amidst that music-flood!
The many waters echoing round
  the golden shores of God.

    7. O Jesus mine,
    thou Rest divine,
  lead me to Zion's height,
where I, with all thy ransomed ones
  shall walk with thee in white.