NCH 634 — The sun is sinking fast

NCH 634

The sun is sinking fast

Hymn Text

Verse 1

The sun is sinking fast
The daylight dies;
Let love awake and pay
Her ev'ning sacrifice.

Verse 2

As Christ upon the Cross,
In death reclined,
Into his Father's hands
His parting soul resigned.

Verse 3

So now herself my soul
Would wholly give
Into his sacred charge,
In whom all spirits live.

Verse 4

So now beneath his eye
Would calmly rest,
Without a wish or thought
Abiding in the breast.

Verse 5

Save that his will be done,
Whate'er betide,
Dead to herself, and dead
In him to all beside.

Verse 6

Thus would I live; yet now
Not I, but he
In all his pow'r and love
Henceforth alive in me.

Verse 7

One sacred Trinity,
One Lord divine;
Myself for ever his,
And he for ever mine.

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