by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Translation by Edward Caswall (1814 - 1878)
The sun is sinking fast
Language: English  after the Latin
The sun is sinking fast; The daylight dies; Let love awake and pay Her evening sacrifice. As Christ upon the Cross In death reclin'd, Into His Father's hands His parting soul resign'd; So now herself my soul Would wholly give, Into His sacred charge, In whom all spirits live : So now beneath His eye Would calmly rest, Without a wish or thought Abiding in the breast, Save that His will be done ; Whate'er betide; Dead to herself; and dead In Him, to all beside. Thus would I live; -- yet now Not I, but He; In all His power and love Henceforth alive in me! One sacred Trinity! One Lord divine! Myself for ever His! And He for ever mine!
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Authorship:
- by Edward Caswall (1814 - 1878), "An Evening Hymn", written 1849, appears in The masque of Mary and other poems, first published 1858 [an adaptation] [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Latin by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Cyril Meir Scott (1879 - 1970), "Evening hymn", op. 34, published 1904 [voice and piano with violin ad libitum], London: Boosey & Hawkes [text not verified]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2010-05-03
Line count: 28
Word count: 121