MEMENTO, DOMINE
AS the music of the dying sunlight
Welcomes the star-darkness;
As the song of the Autumn wind
Tenderly undresses the trees before winter;
So you words now sing to me
And beckon me to another dying
And my soul, though sown with stones,
Will Spring before Winter
This night I sleep
In Heavenly Peace.
Have Mercy on us, O God; And Hearken unto our prayer.
Before the ending of the day: Creator of the world, we pray
That thou with wonted love wouldst keep
Thy watch around us while we sleep.
O let no evil dreams be near; nor phantoms of the night appear.
Our ghostly enemy restrain; lest ought of sin our bodies stain.
Almighty Father, hear our cry; through Jesus Christ our Lord most high
Who with the Holy Ghost and thee; doth live and reign eternally. Amen.
Into thy hands, 0 Lord, I commend my spirit
For thou hast redeemed me, 0 Lord, thou God of truth:
Keep me, 0 Lord, as the apple of an eye:
Hide me under the shadow of thy wings.
Save us, 0 Lord, waking; guard us sleeping,;
that awake we may watch with Christ;
and asleep we may rest in peace.
Compline Prayer
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