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The sun is sinking fast

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Hymn 13: The sun is sinking fast

Orun fere wo na

Hymn: 13
Meter: 6.4.6.6
Season: Orin Ale
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  1. The sun is sinking fast,
    The daylight dies;
    Let love awake, and pay
    Her evening sacrifice.

  2. As Christ upon the Cross
    His head inclined,
    And to His Father's hands
    His parting soul resigned;

  3. So now herself my soul
    Would wholly give
    Into His sacred charge,
    In Whom all spirits live;

  4. So now beneath His eye
    Would calmly rest,
    Without a wish or thought
    Abiding in the breast;

  5. Save that His will be done,
    Whate'er betide;
    Dead to herself, and dead
    In Him to all beside.

  6. Thus would I live: yet now
    Not I, but He,
    In all His power and love,
    Henceforth alive in me.

  7. One sacred Trinity,
    One Lord divine,
    May I be ever His,
    And He for ever mine. Amen.
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