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First Line: Father of heaven and earth
Last Line: The soft, still, holy night.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight


FATHER of heaven and earth,
I bless Thee for the night,
The soft, still night!
The holy pause of care and mirth,
Of sound and light!

Now, far in glade and dell,
Flower-cup, and bud, and bell,
Have shut around the sleeping woodlark's nest;
The bee's long murmuring toils are done,
And I, the o'erwearied one,
O'erwearied and o'erwrought.
Bless Thee, O God! O Father of the oppressed!
With my last waking thought,
In the still night!

Yes! e'er I sink to rest,
By the fire's dying light,
Thou Lord of earth and heaven!
I bless Thee, who hast given,
Unto life's fainting travellers, the night --
The soft, still, holy night.





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