Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book
Date: 1882
Compiler: Fillmore Brothers
Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers
First Line: Silently the shades of evening
Topic: Morning and Evening/Evening
Writer: C Coxe
Composer: D Jones
Meter: 8s and 7s
Tune: Stockwell
Hymn Number: 492
Page Number: 166, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsSILENTLY the shades of evening
Gather round my lowly door;
Silently they bring before me
Faces I shall see no more.
O the lost, the unforgotten,
Though the world be oft forgot!
O the shrouded and the lonely!
In our hearts they perish not,
Living in the silent hours,
Where our spirits only blend-
They, unlinked with earthly trouble;
We, still hoping for its end.
How such holy memories cluster,
Like the stars when storms are past;
Pointing up to that far heaven
We may hope to gain at last.