Savior, Breathe an Evening Blessing

 

 

VERSE 1

Savior, breathe an evening blessing

Ere repose our spirits seal;

Sin and want we come confessing:

Thou canst save, and Thou canst heal.

 

VERSE 2

Though destruction walk around us,

Though the arrow past us fly,

Angel guards from Thee surround us;

We are safe if Thou art nigh.

 

VERSE 3

Though the night be dark and dreary,

Darkness cannot hide from Thee;

Thou art He who, never weary,

Watchest where Thy people be.

 

VERSE 4

Should swift death this night o’ertake us,

And our couch become our tomb,

May the morn in heaven awake us,

Clad in light and deathless bloom.

 

VERSE 5

Father, to thy holy keeping

Humbly we ourselves resign;

Savior, who hast slept our sleeping,

Make our slumbers pure as thine

 

VERSE 6

Blessed Spirit, brooding o’er us,

Chase the darkness of our night,

Till the perfect day before us

Breaks in everlasting light.

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