What time the evening shadows fall (Anonymous)

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• (Posted 2022-05-30)  CPDL #69460:       

Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2022-05-30).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 53 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: The hymn with four-part harmony and underlaid words in the version published in Hymns Ancient & Modern

General Information

Title: What time the evening shadows fall
Composer: Anonymous
Tune: Old 44th
Lyricist: John William Hewett^{create page}
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn   Meter: 86. 86. D (C.M.D.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella or keyboard

First published:
Description: From the Genevan Psalter. A descant to the hymn can be found here.

External websites:

• https://embassysingers.de/scores/hymns.html

Original text and translations

English text

What time the evening shadows fall
around the Church on earth,
when darker forms of doubt appal,
and new false lights have birth;
then closer should her faithful band
for Truth together hold,
hell’s last devices to withstand,
And safely guard her fold.

O Father, in that hour of fear
the Church of England keep,
thine Altar to the last to rear,
and feed Thy fainting sheep;
may she the holy truths attest
apostles taught of yore,
nor quit the Faith by saints confest,
though tempted ne’er so sore.

O Christ, who for Thy flock didst pray
that all might be as one,
unite us all ere fades the day,
thou Sole-begotten Son;
the East, the West, together bind
in love’s unbroken chain;
give each one hope, one heart, one mind,
one glory, and one gain.

O Spirit, Lord of light and life,
the Church with strength renew,
compose the angry voice of strife,
all jealousies subdue:
do thou in ever-quickening streams
upon thy saints descend,
and warm them with reviving beams,
and guide them to the end.

Great Three in One, great One in Three,
our hymns of prayer receive,
and teach us all from sin to flee,
and live as we believe;
so, pure in faith, our thoughts and speech
and acts that faith shall own;
so shall we to thy Presence reach,
and know as we are known.