Alfred H. Miles, ed. The Sacred Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.
By III. An Evening HymnEdward Caswell (18141878)
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The daylight dies;
Let love awake and pay
Her evening sacrifice.
In death reclin’d,
Into His Father’s hands
His parting soul resign’d;
Would wholly give,
Into His sacred charge,
In whom all spirits live;
Would calmly rest,
Without a wish or thought
Abiding in the breast,
Whate’er betide;
Dead to herself; and dead,
In Him, to all beside.
Not I, but He;
In all His power and love
Henceforth alive in me!
One Lord divine!
Myself for ever His,
And He for ever mine!