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Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: Softly now the light of day (FL)

Hymnal: Psalms Hymns and Spiritual Songs

Date: 1853

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: A Campbell

First Line: Softly now the light of day

Topic: Evening Songs

Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>

Composer:

Meter: 7s

Tune:

Hymn Number: Song 291

Page Number: 362, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

SOFTLY now the light of day

Fades upon our sight away,

Free, from care, from labor free,

Lord, we would commune with thee.



Soon for us the light of day

Shall for ever pass away;

Then, from sin and sorrow free,

Take us, Lord, to dwell with thee.