AGAIN, AS EVENING'S SHADOW FALL - Parts & Sc., Hymn Tunes
Availability Available Published 30th June 2016
Cat No.JM73812 Price
£24.95 Composer: Herbert Stanley Oakeley Arranger: David Hamilton Category: Hymn Tunes
This arrangement is of Sir Herbert Stanley Oakeley’s 1874 setting of words from Samuel Longfellow’s Vespers. The words are as follows:
Again, as evening’s shadow falls, We gather in these hallowed walls; And vesper hymn and vesper prayer Rise mingling on the holy air.
May struggling hearts that seek release Here find the rest of God’s own peace; And, strengthened here by hymn and prayer, Lay down the burden and the care.
O God, our light! to Thee we bow; Within all shadows standest Thou; Give deeper calm than night can bring; Give sweeter songs than lips can sing.
Life’s tumult we must meet again, We cannot at the shrine remain; But in the spirit’s secret cell May hymn and prayer forever dwell.
