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Verse 1
The sun is sinking fast,
The daylight dies;
Let love awake, and pay
Her evening sacrifice.
Verse 2
As Christ, upon the cross
In death reclined,
Into His Father’s hands
His parting soul resigned;
Verse 3
So now herself my soul
Would wholly give
Into His sacred charge,
In whom all spirits live;
Verse 4
So now beneath His eye
Would calmly rest,
Without a wish or thought
Abiding in the breast,
Verse 5
Save that His will be done,
Whate’er betide;
Dead to herself, and dead
In Him to all beside.
Verse 6
Thus would I live; yet now
Not I, but He
In all His power and love
Henceforth alive in me,
Verse 7
One sacred Trinity,
One Lord Divine;
Myself for ever His,
And He for ever mine!