Softly now the light of day (Joseph Barnby)
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- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2018-11-20). Score information: A4, 1 page, 56 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Transcribed from the edition on IMSLP. Note values halved. Transposed up a semitone. MusicXML source file(s) in compressed .mxl format.
General Information
Title: Softly now the light of day
Tune: Dulce
Composer: Joseph Barnby
Lyricist: George Washington Doane
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn Meter: 77. 77
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1897 in Hymn Tunes, no. 113, p. 63
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Original text and translations
English text
1 Softly now the light of day
fades upon my sight away;
free from care, from labour free,
Lord, I would commune with thee.
2 Thou, whose all-pervading eye
naught escapes, without, within,
pardon each infirmity,
open fault, and secret sin.
3 Soon for me the light of day
shall for ever pass away;
then, from sin and sorrow free,
take me, Lord, to dwell with thee.
4 Thou who, sinless, yet hast known
all of man's infirmity;
then, from thine eternal throne,
Jesus, look with pitying eye.