Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal
Date: 1871
Compiler: Under direction of the Christian Hymn-Book Committee
Publisher/Printer: Bosworth Chase & Hall
First Line: Softly now the light of day
Topic: Present and Future/Heaven
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer: A Fillmore
Meter: quartet
Tune: Ever-Green Mountains
Hymn Number: 784
Page Number: 295, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsSoftly, now, the light of day
Fades upon my sight away;
Free from care, from labor free,
Lord! I would commune with thee.
Soon, for me, the light of day
Shall forever pass away;
Then, from sin and sorrow free,
Take me, Lord! to dwell with thee.