God, that madest earth and heaven
God, that madest earth and heaven. Reginald Heber* (1783-1826) and Richard Whately* (1787-1863).
The first stanza of this hymn comes from Heber’s Hymns written and adapted to the Weekly Church Service of the Year (1827), with the title ‘Evening Hymn’:
God, that madest earth and heaven, Darkness and light;Who the day for toil hast given, For rest the night;May Thine angel-guards defend us,Slumber sweet Thy mercy send us,Holy dreams and hopes attend us, This livelong night.
The words were written for the Welsh tune AR HYD Y NOS (‘All through the night’) from Edward Jones’ Musical Relicks of the Welsh Bards (1784). There is a tradition that Heber was staying in a house in Wales where there...
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