Prayer · Catholic devotion
Evening Prayer
Now that the daylight dies away,
By all Thy grace and love,
Thee, Maker of the world, we pray
To watch our bed above.
Let dreams depart and phantoms fly,
The offspring of the night;
Keep us, like shrines, beneath Thine eye,
Pure in our foes' despite.
This grace on Thy redeemed confer,
Father, Co-equal Son,
And Holy Ghost, the Comforter,
Eternal Three in One. Amen.
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Text: hymn at Compline, translated by John Henry Newman, in A Manual of Prayers for the Use of the Catholic Laity (Third Plenary Council of Baltimore, 1889), p. 73. Source page: archive.org · Evening Prayer ↗.
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