Now the Day Is Over (hymn)

495 Now the Day Is Over

1 Now the day is over,
   Night is drawing nigh;
   Shadows of the evening
   Steal across the sky.

2 Jesus, give the weary
   Calm and sweet repose;
   With Thy tenderest blessing
   May our eye lids close.

3 Grant to little children
   Visions bright of Thee;
   Guard the sailors tossing
   On the deep, blue sea.

4 Comfort every sufferer
   Watching late in pain;
   Those who plan some evil,
   From their sins restrain.

5 Through the long night-watches
   May Thine angels spread
   Their white wings above me,
   Watching round my bed.

6 When the morning wakens,
   Then may I arise
   Pure and fresh and sinless
   In Thy holy eyes.
                         Sabine Baring-Gould
                         The Methodist Hymnal, 1964 edition

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This seems a good hymn for a new year!

The author of this hymn is the same person who wrote Onward, Christian Soldiers, which I posted on about a year ago. That hymn occurs in more than 1600 hymnals, but this one occurs in "only" about 950. He also wrote other hymns, but none were nearly as popular as these two.
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