- C Soprano Recorder
- F Alto Recorder
- C Tenor Recorder
- F Bass Recorder
- Verse 1
- O God, whose daylight leadeth down,
- Into the sunless way,
- Who, with Thy sweet repose, dost crown
- The labour of the day.
- Verse 2
- Take it, O Lord, and make it clean
- With Thy forgiveness clear;
- That so the thing that might have been,
- To-morrow may appear.
- Verse 3
- And when my thought is all astray,
- Yet think Thou on in me;
- That with the new unsullied day
- My soul wake fresh and free.
- Verse 4
- And when Thou givest dreams to men
- Give dreams, O Lord, to me;
- That, even in visions of the brain,
- I wander towards Thee.
- March 13 entry for the 2022 Weekly Hymns Challenge.
- St. Flavian adapted from Day’s Psalter, 1583
- Lyrics written by George MacDonald (1824-1905)
- Hymn #267 in The Hymnary Of The United Church of Canada