[Page 36]

SONG XXVI.

An EVENING SONG.

I.
1 AND now another Day is gone,
2 I'll sing my Maker's Praise;
3 My Comforts ev'ry Hour make known
4 His Providence and Grace.
II.
5 But how my Childhood runs to waste!
6 My Sins, how great their Sum!
7 LORD, give me Pardon for the past;
8 And Strength for Days to come.
III.
9 I lay my Body down to Sleep;
10 Let Angels guard my Head,
11 And thro' the Hours of Darkness keep
12 Their Watch around my Bed.
IV.
13 With cheerful Heart I close my Eyes,
14 Since thou wilt not remove;
15 And in the Morning let me rise
16 Rejoicing in thy Love.

Text

  • TEI/XML [chunk] (XML - 31K / ZIP - 4.0K) / ECPA schema (RNC - 357K / ZIP - 73K)
  • Plain text [excluding paratexts] (TXT - 557 / ZIP - 540 )

Facsimile (Source Edition)

(Page images digitized from a copy in the Bodleian Library [Vet. A5 f.3516].)

Images

PDF

All Images (PDF - [an error occurred while processing this directive])

About this text

Title (in Source Edition): SONG XXVI. An EVENING SONG.
Author: Isaac Watts
Themes:
Genres: song

Text view / Document view

Source edition

Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748. Divine songs: attempted in easy language for the use of children. By I. Watts, D.D. London: Printed for J. Buckland; J. F. and C. Rivington; T. Longman; W. Fenner; T. Field; and E. and C. Dilly, 1777, p. 36. xii,58,[2]p.; 12⁰. (ESTC T185045; OTA K123515.000) (Page images digitized from a copy in the Bodleian Library [Vet. A5 f.3516].)

Editorial principles

The text has been typographically modernized, but without any silent modernization of spelling, capitalization, or punctuation. The source of the text is given and all editorial interventions have been recorded in textual notes. Based on the electronic text originally produced by the TCP project, this ECPA text has been edited to conform to the recommendations found in Level 5 of the Best Practices for TEI in Libraries version 4.0.0.

Other works by Isaac Watts