Text: | The Day You Gave Us |
Author: | John Ellerton |
Tune: | ST. CLEMENT |
Composer: | Clement C. Scholefield |
1 The day you gave us, God, is ended;
the darkness falls at your request.
To you our morning hymns ascended;
your praise shall sanctify our rest.
2 We thank you that your church, unsleeping
while earth rolls onward into light,
through all the world its watch is keeping,
and never rests by day or night.
3 As over continent and island
each dawn leads on another day,
the voice of prayer is never silent,
nor do the praises die away.
4 So be it, God, your throne shall never,
like earth’s proud empires, pass away.
Your reign endures and grows forever,
until there dawns your glorious day.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | The day you gave us, God, is ended |
Title: | The Day You Gave Us |
Author: | John Ellerton (1870) |
Meter: | 9.8.9.8 |
Publication Date: | 2020 |
Scripture: | ; ; |
Topic: | Church; Praying; Reign of Christ(1 more...) |
Source: | Church Hymns, 1871, alt. |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | ST. CLEMENT |
Composer: | Clement C. Scholefield |
Meter: | 9.8.9.8 |
Key: | A♭ Major |
Source: | Church Hymns with Tunes, 1874 |
Notes: | Chord symbols represent a simplified harmony. |