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Hymns / Music :: Day Is Dying In The West

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"By day the Lord directs His love, at night His song is with me." Psalm 42:8

Hymns Supplied Through the Gracious Generosity
of the Cyber Hymnal Website

Mary Artemesia Lathbury (1841-1913) Words: Mary Artemesia Lathbury, 1877 (verses 1-2) & 1879 (verses 3-4). She wrote this hymn, and Break Thou the Bread of Life, on the shores of Lake Chautauqua, New York.

Music: "Chautauqua," William Fiske Sherwin, 1877


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Photos courtesy of Chautauqua Institution Archives.

William Fiske Sherwin (1826-1888)

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

Refrain

Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of Hosts!
Heaven and earth are full of Thee!
Heaven and earth are praising Thee,
O Lord most high!

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

While the deepening shadows fall,
Heart of love enfolding all,
Through the glory and the grace
Of the stars that veil Thy face,
Our hearts ascend.

Refrain

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

Information about the musical score and the Cyber Hymnal Website
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