Softly Now the Light of Day
The same words as 3 hymnals printed them. Pick two versions to see every change between them: words added, dropped or altered, and verses left out.
8 words changed · 1 stanza only in Christ in Song #304 · tune Merrial → Seymour
Verse 1
Softly now the light of day
Fades upon my sight away;
Free from care, from labor free,
Lord, I would commune with Thee.
Verse 1
Softly now the light of day
Fades upon our sight away;
Free from care, from labor free,
Lord, we would commune with Thee.
Verse 2
Thou, whose all-pervading eyeNaught escapes, with-out, within,
Pardon each infirmity,
Open fault, and secret sin.
Verse 2
Thou, whose all-pervading eye
Nought escapes, with-out, within,
Pardon each infirmity,
Open fault, and secret sin.
Verse 3
Soon for me, the light of day
Shall for ever pass away;
Then, from sin and sorrow free,
Take me, Lord, to dwell with Thee.
Verse 3
Soon from us the light of day
Shall forever pass away;
Then, from sin and sorrow free,
Take us, Lord, to dwell with Thee.
Verse 4
Thou who, sinless, yet hast known All of man's infirmity, Then, from thine eternal throne, Jesus, look with pitying eye.
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