The sun is sinking fast

Verse 1

The sun is sinking fast, the daylight dies; let love awake, and pay her evening sacrifice.

Verse 2

As Christ upon the cross his head inclined, and to his Father's hands his parting soul resigned,

Verse 3

so now herself my soul would wholly give into his sacred charge, in whom all spirits live;

Verse 4

so now beneath his eye would calmly rest, without a wish or thought abiding in the breast,

Verse 5

save that his will be done, whate'er betide; dead to herself, and dead in him to all beside.

Verse 6

Thus would I live: yet now not I, but he, in all his power and love henceforth alive in me.

Verse 7

One sacred Trinity! One Lord divine! May I be ever his, and he for ever mine.