Glory to thee my God, this night

Glory to thee my God, this night. Thomas Ken* (1637-1711). This evening hymn shares its origins with the morning hymn, ‘Awake, my soul, and with the sun’*, and its early history is described under that heading. Like the morning hymn, it exists in a pamphlet, A Morning and Evening Hymn, Formerly made by a Reverend Bishop of 1692, as follows: All Praise to thee, my God, this Night; For all the blessings of the Light. Keep me, O keep me, King of Kings Under thine own Almighty Wings. Forgive me Lord, for thy dear Son The Ills which I this Day have done: That with the World, my self, and thee I, e’re I sleep, at peace may be. Teach me to live, that I may dread The Grave...