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Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: Sofly now the light of day (FL)

Hymnal: Christian Psalms and Hymns

Date: 1839

Compiler: Walter Scott and Silas Leonard

Publisher/Printer: A S Tilden

First Line: Sofly now the light of day

Topic: <no topic given>

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

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Hymn Number: 624

Page Number: 329, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

SOFTLY now the light of day

Fades upon my sight away;

Free from care-from labor free,

Lord, I would commune with thee.



Soon, from me, the light of day

Shall forever pass away:

Then, from sin and sorrow free,

Take me, Lord, to dwell with thee!