Common Tune

Hymn

Softly Now the Light of Day

AUS DER TIEFE · 7.7.7.7 · words George Washington Doane · music Martin Herbst

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Softly Now the Light of Day er with my pass out, sight for es up capes, ev on a with a way; in, way; me all now for whose ly per the the 2. Thou, 1. Soft Soon 3. day eye day of ing Shall Naught Fades of light vad light dwell se mune me, pen I to and com Lord, fault, would sin. Thee. Thee. with cret with sin each care, from don from and in from Then, Par Free ty free, free, Take O Lord, sor row i bor la firm George Washington Doane, 1824 AUS DER TIEFE 7.7.7.7 Martin Herbst, 1676
Softly Now the Light of Day er with my pass out, sight for es up capes, ev on a with a way; in, way; me all now for whose ly per the the 2. Thou, 1. Soft Soon 3. day eye day of ing Shall Naught Fades of light vad light dwell se mune me, pen I to and com Lord, fault, would sin. Thee. Thee. with cret with sin each care, from don from and in from Then, Par Free ty free, free, Take O Lord, sor row i bor la firm George Washington Doane, 1824 AUS DER TIEFE 7.7.7.7 Martin Herbst, 1676

1.Softly now the light of day
Fades upon my sight away;
Free from care, from labor free,
Lord, I would commune with Thee.

2.Thou, whose all-pervading eye
Naught escapes, without, within,
Pardon each infirmity,
Open fault, and secret sin.

3.Soon for me the light of day
Shall forever pass away;
Then, from sin and sorrow free,
Take me, Lord, to dwell with Thee.

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Same meter but needs editorial underlay: MONKLAND, NUN KOMM, DER HEIDEN HEILAND, SONG 13.

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