Holy Father, cheer our way

Holy Father, cheer our way. Richard Hayes Robinson* (1842-1892). Written in 1869 when Robinson was curate of Upper Norwood, to be sung after the Third Collect at Evening Prayer in The Book of Common Prayer. That Collect begins ‘Lighten our darkness, we beseech Thee, O Lord’. It was printed in Church Hymns (1871, Church Hymns with Tunes, 1874). It was included in the Second Edition of A&M (1875), and in Godfrey Thring’s A Church of England Hymn Book (1880): Holy Father, cheer our wayWith Thy love’s perpetual ray:Grant us every closing day      Light at evening time. Holy Saviour, calm our fearsWhen earth’s brightness disappears;Grant us in our latter years      Light at evening...