Lyr Req: Even Song (Lester)

08 Mar 01 - 05:13 PM (#413573)
Subject: Evening is falling
From: GUEST

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

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26 Aug 01 - 09:02 PM (#535815)
Subject: ADD: Even Song (Evening Is Falling) - Hymn
From: Lin in Kansas

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.

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