 | 1884 - 874 pages
...was too strong for her to bear, and, pulling the clothes over her head, she tried to say her hymn. " Now the day is over, Night is drawing nigh, Shadows of the evening Steal across tho sky. Jesus, grant the weary Calm and sweet reposo; With Thy tenderest blessing May our eye-lids... | |
 | Edward Henry Bickersteth (bp. of Exeter) - 1885 - 482 pages
...[6s. 5& afraid; yea, thou shalt li.\ dow~r, and thy sleep shall be sweet. — 1'rov. iii. 24. 1 Xow the day is over, Night is drawing nigh, Shadows of...across the sky. 2 Now the darkness gathers, Stars their watches keep, Birds, and beasts, and flowers Soon will be asleep. 3 Jesu, give the weary Calm... | |
 | Hymns - 1870 - 256 pages
...there is light ! 309. EVENING. 'The darkness and the light are both alike to Thee/ Ps. cxxxix. 12. Now the day is over, Night is drawing nigh : Shadows of the evening Steal across the sky. Now the darkness gathers, Stars begin to peep, Birds and beasts and flowers Soon will be asleep. JESUS,... | |
 | Church hymns - 1871 - 564 pages
...see Light at Evening-time. Amen. 24 6.5. "Even the night shall be light about me."— Ps. cxxxix. n. 1 Now the day is over, Night is drawing nigh ; Shadows of the evening Steal across the sky ; 2 Jesu, grant the weary Caim and sweet repose ; With Thy tenderest blessing May our eyelids close. 3... | |
 | William Fleming Stevenson - Children's songs - 1873 - 650 pages
...feeble, old, and gray, O Lord, forsake me not. T OW the day is over, _| Night is drawing nigh, i. 6s. Shadows of the evening Steal across the sky. 2 Now the darkness gathers, Stars begin to peep, Birds, 8 Jesus, give the weary Calm and sweet repose ; With Thy tenderest blessing May our eyelida close.... | |
 | Caroline Thompson - 1874 - 366 pages
...ascended into the pulpit, perched herself on a huge hassock, and commenced a hymn. It ran thus : — " Now the day is over, Night is drawing nigh, Shadows of the evening, Steal across the sky. " Now the darkness gathers, Stars begin to peep, Birds and beasts and flowers, Soon will be asleep."... | |
 | Hannah Broomfield, J. R. Macduff - Christian biography - 1874 - 172 pages
...purity and grace, Our weakness, pitying, see, 0 make our hearts Thy dwelling place. And meet for Thee. Now the day is over, Night is drawing nigh, Shadows of the evening Steal across the sky. Now the darkness gathers, Stars begin to peep, Birds, and beasts, and flowers. Soon will be asleep.... | |
 | Henry Martyn Hart - 1875 - 378 pages
...children, That all may be your own. 25. EVENING HYMN. " At evening-time there shall be light" 6-5, 6-5. 1 . Now the day is over, Night is drawing nigh ; Shadows...across the sky. 2. Now the darkness gathers, Stars hegin to peep ; Birds, and beasts, and flowers ; Soon will be asleep. 3. Jesu, give the weary Calm... | |
 | Book - 1875 - 314 pages
...grateful heart, That after my last sleep I may Awake to Thy eternal day. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. CCXLVI. Now the day is over, Night is drawing nigh — Shadows of the evening Steal across the sky. Now the darkness gathers, Stars begin to peep ; Birds, and beasts, and flowers, Soon will be asleep.... | |
 | P. E. S. - 1875 - 248 pages
...seemed to think she had made a hit in finding such an appropriate title.] CHAPTER IX. RETROSPECTION. ' Now the day is over, Night is drawing nigh, Shadows of the evening Steal across the sky.' JIY friends laugh at me when I say that I am losing my memory ; but I know it is the case, for I remember... | |
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Now the day is over, Night is drawing nigh, Shadows of the evening Steal across the sky. 
