Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: Father supreme thou high and holy One
Topic: Home/Evening Hymns
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: 10s and 4
Tune:
Hymn Number: 1209
Page Number: 724, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsFather supreme! thou high and holy One!
To thee we bow;
No, when the burden of the day is gone,
Devoutly, now.
From age to age unchanging, still the same
All-good thou are;
Hallowed for ever be thy reverend name
In every heart!
When the glad morn upon the hills was spread,
Thy smile was there;
Now, as the darkness gathers overhead,
We feel thy care.
Night spreads her shade upon another day
For ever past;
So o'er our faults, thy love, we humbly pray,
A vail may cast.
Silence and calm, o'er hearts by earth distrest,
Now sweetly steal;
So every fear that struggles in the breast
Shall faith conceal.
Thou, through the dark, wilt watch above our sleep
With eye of love;
And thou wilt wake us, when the sunbeams leap
The hills above.
O, may each heart its gratitude express
As life expands,
And find the truimph of its happiness
In thy commands!