Classic Poem

TO AN AIR HEARD IN S. TRINITÀ DE MONTI IN ROME .

Hear us, Heavenly Father, hear us!
Give to us thy perfect peace.
Thou whose love unsleeping
Watch is ever keeping,
Shades of evening gather,
Thou, our heavenly Father,
Holy and Merciful,
Hear our evening prayer!

When life's glooms o'ertake us
Thou wilt not forsake us;
When life's shadows darken
Thou our cry wilt hearken;
Holy and Merciful!
Thou wilt hear our prayer:
Give us thy peace, O God,
Keep us in thy perfect peace!