Above: Night, Between 1919 and 1920
Publisher and Copyright Claimant = Detroit Publishing Company
Image Source = Library of Congress
(http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/det1994006529/PP/)
Reproduction Number = LC-D4-72241
Original Words by Samuel Olsen Bruun (1656-1694)
English Translation (1908) by Ole T. (Sanden) Arneson
http://www.hymnary.org/person/Arneson_OT
Hymn Source = Hymnal for Church and Home, Third Edition (1938), of the American Evangelical Lutheran Church and the United Evangelical Lutheran Church, denominations with Danish heritage
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1. The sun has gone down,
And peace has descended on country and town,
The songbirds in silence have flown to their nest,
And flowers are closing their petals in rest;
So closes my heart to annoyance and care,
In homage and prayer.
2. I praise for this day
The Father in heaven, who prospered my way,
Who shielded from danger, protected from harm,
Promoted my labor, and strenthen’d my arm;
For hours that passed lightly as birds on the wing,
Thanksgiving I bring.
3. Forgive me, O Lord,
My sins and transgressions in deed and in word!
Thou knowest my heart and my innermost thought,
The words I have spoken, the deeds I have wrought;
My errors and failings I deeply regret;
Forgive and forget.
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