Present Joys

Lord, may I be at rest in You
   and sweetly sleep the whole night through.
Refresh my strength, for Your own sake,
   so I may serve You when I wake.

Thomas Ken’s “Evening Hymn”.

According to Louis Benson in Studies of Familiar Hymns, John Keble used to recite this hymn to himself before bed. (I think that’s a fantastic idea.)

Christ, Whose glory fills the skies,
Christ, the true, the only light,
Sun of Righteousness, arise!
Triumph o’er the shades of night;
Day-spring from on high, be near;
Day-star, in my heart appear.

Here might I stay and sing,
no story so divine;
never was love, dear King!
never was grief like Thine.
    This is my Friend,
    in Whose sweet praise
    I all my days
    could gladly spend.

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House of the Rising Son.

Sufjan singing Ah, Holy Jesus is something I can support 100%.

‘It is finished,’ the Redeemer said,
And meekly bowed His dying head,
Whilst we this sentence scan,
Come, sinners, and observe the Word.
Behold the conquests of the Lord,
Complete for helpless man.

Who now shall urge a second claim?
The law no longer can condemn,
Faith a release can show;
Justice itself a friend appears,
The prison house a whisper hears,
‘Loose him, and let him go.’

His toil divinely finished stands,
But oh! the praise his work demands,
Careful may we attend!
Conclusion to our souls be this:
Because salvation finished is,
Our thanks shall never end.