{"id":273,"date":"2010-05-28T21:30:53","date_gmt":"2010-05-29T01:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/?p=273"},"modified":"2010-05-28T14:28:40","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T18:28:40","slug":"a-song-for-the-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/2010\/05\/28\/a-song-for-the-evening\/","title":{"rendered":"A song for the evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GLORY to Thee, my God, this night,<br \/>\nFor all the blessings of the light;<br \/>\nKeep me, oh keep me, King of kings,<br \/>\nBeneath Thine own almighty wings.<\/p>\n<p>Forgive me, Lord, for Thy dear Son,<br \/>\nThe ill that I this day have done:<br \/>\nThat with the world, myself and Thee,<br \/>\nI, ere I sleep, at peace may be.<\/p>\n<p>Teach me to live, that I may dread<br \/>\nThe grave as little as my bed;<br \/>\nTeach me to die, that so I may<br \/>\nRise glorious at the judgment day.<\/p>\n<p>Oh may my soul on Thee repose,<br \/>\nAnd with sweet sleep mine eyelids close;<br \/>\nSleep that may me more vigorous make<br \/>\nTo serve my God when I awake.<\/p>\n<p>When in the night I sleepless lie,<br \/>\nMy soul with heavenly thoughts supply.<br \/>\nLet no ill dreams disturb my rest.<br \/>\nNo powers of darkness me molest.<\/p>\n<p>Oh when shall I in endless day,<br \/>\nFor ever chase dark sleep away;<br \/>\nAnd endless praise with th&#8217; heavenly choir<br \/>\nIncessant sing, and never tire!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Thomas Ken, 1697<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em>from C H Spurgeon\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.graceandtruthbooks.com\/product\/our-own-hymn-book-spurgeons-metropolitan-tabernacle-hymn-book\" target=\"_blank\">Our Own Hymn-Book<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GLORY to Thee, my God, this night, For all the blessings of the light; Keep me, oh keep me, King of kings, Beneath Thine own almighty wings. Forgive me, Lord, for Thy dear Son, The ill that I this day have done: That with the world, myself and Thee, I, ere I sleep, at peace&hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"readmore-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/2010\/05\/28\/a-song-for-the-evening\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read <\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[200],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hymns","tag-hymns"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1MnZf-4p","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdackerman.com\/miscellany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}