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The Day Is Ended

Appears in 23 hymnals First Line: The day is ended, ere I sink to sleep Lyrics: 1 The day is ended, ere I sink to sleep, My weary spirit seeks repose in thine; Father, forgive my trespasses, and keep This little life of mine. 2 With loving kindness curtain thou my bed, And cool in rest, my burning pilgrim feet; Thy pardon be the pillow for my head, So shall my sleep be sweet. 3 At peace with all the world, dear Lord, and Thee, No fears my soul's unwav'ring faith can shake, All's well! whichever side the grave for me The morning light may break. Used With Tune: [The day is ended, ere I sink to sleep]

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[The day is ended, ere I sink to sleep]

Appears in 1 hymnal Tune Key: F Major or modal Incipit: 35432 32345 36554 Used With Text: The Day Is Ended
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LUCCOMBE

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J.A. Fuller-Maitland Tune Sources: The English Hymnal, 1906 Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 33453 21233 56717 Used With Text: The day is ended, Ere I sink to sleep
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BRIGHT

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: H. Baker, Mus. Bac. Incipit: 32117 71232 12345 Used With Text: The day is ended. Ere I sink to sleep

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The Day Is Ended

Hymnal: Joyful Songs #65 (1875) First Line: The day is ended, ere I sink to sleep Lyrics: 1 The day is ended, ere I sink to sleep, My weary spirit seeks repose in thine; Father, forgive my trespasses, and keep This little life of mine. 2 With loving kindness curtain thou my bed, And cool in rest, my burning pilgrim feet; Thy pardon be the pillow for my head, So shall my sleep be sweet. 3 At peace with all the world, dear Lord, and Thee, No fears my soul's unwav'ring faith can shake, All's well! whichever side the grave for me The morning light may break. Languages: English Tune Title: [The day is ended, ere I sink to sleep]
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The Day Is Ended

Hymnal: Joy and Gladness #93 (1880) First Line: The day is ended; ere I sink to sleep Languages: English Tune Title: [The day is ended; ere I sink to sleep]
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The day is ended, Ere I sink to sleep

Hymnal: Hymns for All Christians #L72 (1869) Languages: English

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J. H. Fillmore

1849 - 1936 Person Name: J. H. F. Composer of "[The day is ended; ere I sink to sleep]" in Joy and Gladness James Henry Fillmore USA 1849-1936. Born at Cincinnati, OH, he helped support his family by running his father's singing school. He married Annie Eliza McKrell in 1880, and they had five children. After his father's death he and his brothers, Charles and Frederick, founded the Fillmore Brothers Music House in Cincinnati, specializing in publishing religious music. He was also an author, composer, and editor of music, composing hymn tunes, anthems, and cantatas, as well as publishing 20+ Christian songbooks and hymnals. He issued a monthly periodical “The music messsenger”, typically putting in his own hymns before publishing them in hymnbooks. Jessie Brown Pounds, also a hymnist, contributed song lyrics to the Fillmore Music House for 30 years, and many tunes were composed for her lyrics. He was instrumental in the prohibition and temperance efforts of the day. His wife died in 1913, and he took a world tour trip with single daughter, Fred (a church singer), in the early 1920s. He died in Cincinnati. His son, Henry, became a bandmaster/composer. John Perry

Joseph Barnby

1838 - 1896 Composer of "BIRKDALE" in Hymns for the Living Age Joseph Barnby (b. York, England, 1838; d. London, England, 1896) An accomplished and popular choral director in England, Barnby showed his musical genius early: he was an organist and choirmaster at the age of twelve. He became organist at St. Andrews, Wells Street, London, where he developed an outstanding choral program (at times nicknamed "the Sunday Opera"). Barnby introduced annual performances of J. S. Bach's St. John Passion in St. Anne's, Soho, and directed the first performance in an English church of the St. Matthew Passion. He was also active in regional music festivals, conducted the Royal Choral Society, and composed and edited music (mainly for Novello and Company). In 1892 he was knighted by Queen Victoria. His compositions include many anthems and service music for the Anglican liturgy, as well as 246 hymn tunes (published posthumously in 1897). He edited four hymnals, including The Hymnary (1872) and The Congregational Sunday School Hymnal (1891), and coedited The Cathedral Psalter (1873). Bert Polman

Henry Baker

1835 - 1910 Person Name: H. Baker, Mus. Bac. Composer of "BRIGHT" in Worship Song Henry Baker, Mus. Bac., son of the Rev. James Baker, Chancellor of the diocese of Durham; born at Nuneham, Oxfordshire; educated at Winchester School; graduated Bachelor in Music at the University of Oxford in 1867. He also worked as a civil engineer. Scottish Church Music, its composers and sources by James Love; William Blackwwod and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1891
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