Now evening comes to close the day

Now evening comes to close the day. Michael Arnold Perry* (1942-1996). Though neither intended nor claimed as a version of the Compline hymn ‘Te lucis ante terminum’*, this text (among the last written by the author at Eversley Rectory, Hampshire) was compared by him to the versions of ‘Before the ending of the day’* in current use. For that liturgical reason, and (he wrote) ‘because of the interesting tune from Peter White’ (CHARNWOOD), it was placed in the Canticle section of the 1990 Psalms for Today where STRACATHRO was also used, after its initial publication in Come Rejoice! (1989) with the newer tune. Church Family Worship (1991) has both. The lines ‘Into your hands, eternal Friend/...