"The Day is Past and Over"
                  Translated by John M. Neale, 1818-1866                                        
                               Text From:
                   THE HANDBOOK TO THE LUTHERAN HYMNAL
           (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1942) p.395



	1. The day is past and over;
	All thanks, O Lord, to Thee!
	I pray Thee now that sinless
	The hours of dark may be.
	O Jesus, keep me in Thy sight
	And save me through the coming night.

	2. The joys of day are over;
	I lift my heart to Thee
	And ask Thee that offenseless
	The hours of dark may be.
	O Jesus, keep me in Thy sight
	And guard me through the coming night.

	3. The toils of day are over:
	I raise the hymn to Thee
	And ask that free from peril
	The hours of dark may be.
	O Jesus, make their darkness light
	And guard me through the coming night.

	4. Lord, that in death I sleep not,
	And lest my Foe should say
	"I have prevailed against him,"
	Lighten mine eyes, I pray.
	O Jesus, keep me in Thy sight
	And guard me through the coming night.

	5. Be Thou my Soul's Preserver,
	O God, for Thou dost know
	How many are the perils
	Through which I have to go.
	Lover of men, oh, hear my call
	And guard and save me from them all.

       

        Notes:
        Hymn #555 from _The Lutheran Hymnal_
        Text: Ps. 13:3
        Author: unknown, c. 600
        Translated by: John M. Neale, 1853, alt
        Titled: "Tehn hehmeran dielthohn"
        Composer: Arthur H. Brown, 1862
        Tune: "St. Anatolius"
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