"The shadows of the evening are stretched out." Jeremiah 6:4
Words: Godfrey Thring, 1864:
The hymn…was composed as an 'afternoon' hymn, as in most of the country parishes in that part of Somersetshire in which I lived, the second service was nearly always held in the afternoon, and not in the evening, whilst all the hymns in the hymn books in common use were for the late evening or night. I wrote "The radiant morn hath pass'd away" to supply this want. Several of my hymns were written in consequence of some want of this kind, felt either by myself or others; but most of them, I think, though I have never made any calculations, arose almost spontaneously from thoughts that happened to be running in my mind at the time.
Music: Charles Frantois Gounod (1818-1893)
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"St. Gabriel," Frederick Arthur Gore Ouseley (1825-1889)