Day is Dying in the West

503 Day is Dying in the West

1 Day is dying in the west;
   Heav'n is touching earth with rest;
   Wait and worship while the night
   Sets her evening lamps alight
   Through all the sky.

Refrain:
   Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of Hosts!
   Heav'n and earth are full of Thee;
   Heav'en and earth are praising Thee,
   O Lord most high!

2 Lord of life, beneath the dome
   Of the universe, Thy home,
   Gather us who seek Thy face
   To the fold of Thy embrace,
   For Thou art nigh. [Refrain]

3 While the deep'ning shadows fall,
   Heart of Love, enfolding all,
   Through the glory and the grace
   Of the stars that veil Thy face,
   Our hearts ascend. [Refrain]

4 When forever from our sight
   Pass the stars, the day, the night,
   Lord of angels, on our eyes
   Let eternal morning rise,
   And shadows end. [Refrain]
                         Mary A. Lathbury
                         The Methodist Hymnal, 1964 edition

<idle musing>
This hymn is by the same person who wrote Break Thou the Bread of Life. This hymn occurs in about 560 hymnals, but I don't recall ever singing it.
</idle musing>