Music & HymnsSun Declines, The

"Hide me in the shadow of Your wings." Psalm 17:8

Courtesy of Chautauqua Institution Archives

Music: "Vincent," Horatio Richmond Palmer (1834-1907)

The sun declines; o'er land and sea
Creeps on the night;
The twinkling stars come one by one
To shed their light;
With Thee there is no darkness, Lord;
With us abide,
And 'neath Thy wings we rest secure
This eventide.

Forgive the wrong this day we've done,
Or thought, or said;
Each moment with its good or ill
To Thee has fled;
O Father, in Thy mercy great
Will we confide;
Thy benediction now bestow
This eventide.

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