Night Prayers and Poems

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Day is dying in the west;
Heav’n is touching earth with rest;
Wait and worship while the night
Sets the evening lamps alight
Through all the sky.

Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of Hosts!
Heav’n and earth are full of Thee!
Heav’n and earth are praising Thee,
O Lord most high!

Lord of life, beneath the dome
Of the universe, Thy home,
Gather us who seek Thy face
To the fold of Thy embrace, 
For Thou art nigh.

While the deepening shadows fall,
Heart of love enfolding all,
Through the glory and the grace
Of the stars that veil Thy face,
Our hearts ascend.

When forever from our sight
Pass the stars, the day, the night,
Lord of angels, on our eyes
Let eternal morning rise
And shadows end.

  -- Mary A. Lathbury, 1878 (Isaiah 6:3)

 

 O Yahweh my g-d, I thank you that you give rest to body and soul.  Thy hand has been over me.  Forgive my feeble faith and all the wrong I have done this day, and help me to forgive all who have wronged me.  Grant that I may sleep in peace beneath thy care, and defend me from the temptations of darkness.  Into your hands I commend my loved ones, I commend this household, I commend my body and soul.  Oh Father, your holy name be praised!
   -- Deitrich Bonhoeffer

Dear Yahshua, as a hen covers her chicks with her wings to keep them safe, do thou this night protect us under your golden wings.  Amen.
   -- Indian

O Father, you have let me pass the day in peace; let me pass the night in peace, O Yahweh, you who have no master.  There is no strength but in you.  You aloine have no obligation.  Under your hand I pass the night.  You are my Mother and my Father.  Amen.  
   -- the Boran

The day Thou gavest, Lord, is ended,
The darkness falls at Thy behest;
To Thee our morning hymns ascended,
Thy praise shall sanctify our rest.

We thank Thee that Thy church, unsleeping,
While earth rolls onward into light,
Through all the world her watch is keeping,
And rests not now by day or night.

As o’er each continent and island
The dawn leads on another day,
The voice of prayer is never silent,
Nor dies the strain of praise away.

The sun that bids us rest is waking
Our brethren ’neath the western sky,
And hour by hour fresh lips are making
Thy wondrous doings heard on high.

So be it, Lord; Thy throne shall never,
Like earth’s proud empires, pass away:
Thy kingdom stands, and grows forever,
Till all Thy creatures own Thy sway.

   -- Clement C. Scholefield, 1874

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