Sabbath evening twilight - Webb, George J.

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"Although the text is somewhat devotional in nature, this song was not specifically sacred nor church music."

◈ Genre → Hymns ♬ Voicing → SATB ¶ Language → English

Parts 4

Instruments A cappella

Pages 8

CPDL # 79232

Editor David Anderson

Posted 2024-02-22

License Personal

¶Lyrics / Text

Delightful hour of sweet repose, Of hallowed thoughts, of love, of prayer! I love thy deep and tranquil close, For all the sabbath-day is there. Each pure desire, each high request That burned before the temple shrine— The hopes, the fears, that moved the breast— All live again in light like thine. I love thee for the fervid glow Thou shed’st around the closing day— Those golden fires, those wreaths of snow, That light and pave his glorious way! Through them, I’ve sometimes thought, the eye May pierce the unmeasured deeps of space, And track the course where spirits fly, On viewless wings, to realms of bliss. I love thee for the unbroken calm, That slumbers on this fading scene, And throws its kind and soothing charm O’er “all the little world within.” It trances every roving thought, Yet sets the soaring fancy free— Shuts from the soul the present out, That all is musing memory.