Savior, breathe an evening blessing
Ere repose our spirits seal
Sin and want we come confessing
Thou canst save, and Thou canst heal
Tho' destruction walk around us
Tho' the arrow past us fly
Angel guards from Thee surround us
We are safe if Thou art nigh
Tho' the night be dark and dreary
Darkness cannot hide from Thee
Thou art He who, never weary
Watchest where Thy people be
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
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Alternate verses:
Father, to thy holy keeping
Humbly we ourselves resign
Savior, who hast slept our sleeping
Make our slumbers pure as thine
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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