Lyr Req: Even Song (Lester)

Subject: Evening is falling
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Mar 01 - 05:13 PM

Hi,

I heard this ballad as a boy. Could you find its lyrics for me? It goes:

Evening is falling to sleep in the west
---- the golden bright meadows to red
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Now all the flowers have gone to repose
----- sweet perfume cups gracefully closed

Sweetly sleep, sweetly sleep
------ in your cradle, O Little one, sleep.

I have tried searching many sources, without success. I would really appreciate it if you could help. Thanks,

John

Subject: ADD: Even Song (Evening Is Falling) - Hymn
From: Lin in Kansas
Date: 26 Aug 01 - 09:02 PM

Hope this is the right song! Not sure what all the credits listed below mean. Maybe someone more knowledgeable can explain them? These lyrics come from here, and give a link to the Southwestern Baptist Theological University (presumably where the texts are stored).

Lin

EVEN SONG
AUTHOR: William Lester, 1889-1956.
Published: 1931 by The Arthur P. Schmidt Co.
Octavo Series (two-part songs) No. 208: for soprano and alto
Text: Anonymous

1 Lester, William, 1889- Descants on favorite songs / arranged and e 1939
2 Lester, William, 1889- Psalm of Thanksgiving: a sacred cantata f
3 Rockwood, Ruth Esther. My daily prayer: for two-part choir or ch 1934


Evening is falling to sleep in the west,
Lulling the golden-brown meadows to rest;
Twinkle like diamonds the stars in the skies,
Greeting the two little slumbering eyes.

Sweetly sleep;
Jesus doth keep;
And Jesus will give His beloved one sleep.

Now all the flowers have gone to repose,
Closed are the sweet cups of lily and rose;
Blossoms rocked lightly on evening's mild breeze,
Drowsily, dreamily swing in the trees.

Sweetly sleep;
Jesus doth keep;
And Jesus will give His beloved one sleep.

Sleep till the flowers shall open once more;
Sleep till the lark in the morning shall soar;
Sleep till the sungold in lighting the skies,
Bids thee from sweet repose joyfully rise.

Sweetly sleep;
Jesus doth keep;
And Jesus will give His beloved one sleep.