And Now The Day Is Past And Gone (Chandler)

This hymn was used for Compline on Sundays and Weekdays during Ordinary Time in the Paris Breviary (1736). 

This is the original text of the hymn from John Chandler’s 1837 Hymns of the Primitive Church:

And now the day is past and gone,
We sing, oh God, thy praise,
And while the night is hasting on,
Our humble prayer we raise.

The sin that we have done this day
Oh, teach us to deplore,
And drive the tempter far away,
That we may sin no more.

That cruel lion prowls around,
To kill and to devour,
Beneath thy wings may help he found
To save us from his power.

When shall that day arise, oh God,
Which ne’er shall set in gloom;
When shall we reach that blest abode,
Where danger cannot come?

To God the Father, God the Son,
And God the Holy Ghost,
All glory be from saints on earth,
And from the angel-host. Amen.

Words: Fr. Charles Coffin, 1736; tr. John Chandler, 1837.
Tune: “Dundee” from Scottish Psalter, 1615.
Meter: 8.6.8.6

The original Latin text of this hymn may be found here.