Even-Song - Laurence Hughes

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◈ Genre → Partsongs ♬ Voicing → SSATBB ¶ Language → English

Parts 6

Instruments A cappella

¶Lyrics / Text

The day is spent and hath his will on me, I and the Sun have run our races; I went the slower, yet more paces, for I decay, not he. Lord, make my losses up and set me free, I who cannot now by day look on his daring brightness, May shine then more bright than he. If thou defer this light then shadow me: lest that the night, Earth’s gloo my shade, fouling her nest, my earth invade As if shades knew not Thee. But thou art Light and darkness both together: If that be dark, we cannot see, The sun is darker than a tree and Thou more dark than either. Yet Thou art not so dark since I know this But that my darkness may touch thine, And hope that hope, that may teach it to shine, Since Light thy darkness is. O let my soul, whose keys I must deliver Into the hands of senseless dreams Which know not Thee Suck in thy beams and wake and with thee forever.