Hymn · Evening
Softly Now the Light of Day
Organ, every verse, the words light up as you sing. Tune: Seymour.
Softly now the light of dayFades upon my sight away;Free from care, from labor free,Lord, I would commune with thee.
Thou whose all pervading eyeNaught escapes without, within,Pardon each infirmity,Open fault, and secret sin.
Soon, for me, the light of dayShall forever pass away;Then, from sin and sorrow free,Take me, Lord, to dwell with thee.
Thou who, sinless, yet hast knownAll of man's infirmity;Then from thine eternal throne,Jesus, look with pitying eye.
Words: George Washington Doane (1824). Public domain.