Hymns For Christian Devotion

By J.G. Adams

954. -- Evening Aspiration.

954. P. M. Bp. Heber. Evening Aspiration.

God, that madest earth and heaven,
Darkness and light, --
Who the day for toil hast given,
For rest the night, --
May thine angel guards defend us,
Slumber sweet thy mercy send us,
Holy dreams and hopes attend us,
This livelong night.