24. Saviour, breathe an evening blessing

Savior, breathe an evening blessing,
Ere repose our spirits seal;
Sin and want we come confessing;
Thou canst save, and thou canst heal.
Though the night be dark and dreary,
Darkness cannot hide from thee;
Thou art he who, never weary,
Watchest where thy people be.

Though destruction walk around us,
Though the arrows past us fly,
Angel-guards from thee surround us;
We are safe, if thou art nigh.
Be thou nigh, should death o'ertake us;
Jesus, then our refuge be,
And in Paradise awake us,
There to rest in peace with thee.

Father, to thy holy keeping
Humbly we ourselves resign;
Savior, who hast slept our sleeping,
Make our slumbers pure as thine;
Blessed Spirit, brooding o'er us,
Chase the darkness of our night,
Till the perfect day before us
Breaks in everlasting light.

Amen.

Text Information
First Line: Saviour, breathe an evening blessing
Author: James Edmeston (1820)
Author (st. 3): Edward H. Bickersteth (1876)
Meter: 8.7.8.7.D.
Language: English
Publication Date: 1916
Topic: Daily Prayer: Evening
Tune Information
Name: VESPER HYMN
Composer: Dmitri S. Bortniansky (1818)
Meter: 8.7.8.7.D.
Incipit: 35453 52535 42171
Key: E♭ Major



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