Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book
Date: 1882
Compiler: Fillmore Brothers
Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers
First Line: Softly now the light of day
Topic: Morning and Evening/Evening
Writer: G Doane
Composer: J Fillmore
Meter: 7s
Tune: Flower
Hymn Number: 453
Page Number: 149, 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-
Thou, whose all-pervading eye
Naught escapes, without, within,
Pardon each infirmity-
Open fault, and secret sin.
Soon, for me, the light of day
Shall forever pass away:
Then, from sin and sorrow free,
Take me, Lord, to dwell with thee.
Thou who, sinless, yet hast known
All of man's infirmity,
Then, from thine eternal throne,
Jesus look with pitying eye.