Faithful vigil ended

Faithful vigil ended. Timothy Dudley-Smith* (1926-2024). This very beautiful paraphrase of  the Song of Simeon (Luke 2: 29-32) was written on holiday at Eastbourne in 1967 as a companion-piece to ‘Tell out, my soul, the greatness of the Lord’*. It was based on the New English Bible version of the ‘Nunc dimittis’*, beginning ‘This day, Master, thou givest thy servant his discharge’ (this was closely followed in stanza 1 lines 3-4). It was written in the ‘thou’ form, but later changed:     Master, grant your servant      his discharge in peace. The hymn is frequently, and very properly, used for Candlemas, 2 February, the Feast of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple, or the Purification...