Henry Thomas Smart - The sun is sinking fast - текст песни (слова)

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