| Alfred H. Miles, ed. The Sacred Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | | III. An Evening Hymn | | By Edward Caswell (1814–1878) |
| | | THE SUN is sinking fast; | |
| The daylight dies; | |
| Let love awake and pay | |
| Her evening sacrifice. | |
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| As Christ upon the Cross | 5 |
| In death reclin’d, | |
| Into His Father’s hands | |
| His parting soul resign’d; | |
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| So now herself my soul | |
| Would wholly give, | 10 |
| Into His sacred charge, | |
| In whom all spirits live; | |
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| So now beneath His eye | |
| Would calmly rest, | |
| Without a wish or thought | 15 |
| Abiding in the breast, | |
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| Save that His will be done, | |
| Whate’er betide; | |
| Dead to herself; and dead, | |
| In Him, to all beside. | 20 |
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| Thus would I live;—yet now | |
| Not I, but He; | |
| In all His power and love | |
| Henceforth alive in me! | |
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| One sacred Trinity! | 25 |
| One Lord divine! | |
| Myself for ever His, | |
| And He for ever mine! | | | | |
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