Now the Day Is Over

Calmly

1. Now the day is over;
Night is drawing nigh;
Shadows of the evening
Steal across the sky.

2. Jesus, give the weary
Calm and sweet repose;
With thy tend’rest blessing
May our eyelids close.

Text: Sabine Baring-Gould, 1834–1924

Music: Joseph Barnby, 1838–1896