saviour breathe an evening blessing

was over at sara n martha's this evening after work.
and towards the end of the evening, davie had a few words, prayer, and asked for a song.
the song was, Savior Breathe an Evening Blessing.
and i promptly got chills.

that's the song that dad asked for one night when everyone was back home, fairly early in the year.  he wanted us to sing that song while everyone was there, before they left.  and it was really hard.  i think beth was the only one who was able to sing the whole thing.  the rest of us just mumbled in and out at intervals.  he had been talking about how he hates the nights, they are so long, and maybe sometime he'll hear the angels sing.

1. Savior, breathe an evening blessing
Ere repose our spirits seal;
Sin and want we come confessing;
Thou canst save and Thou canst heal.

2. Tho’ destruction walk around us,
Tho’ the arrows past us fly,
Angel-guards from Thee surround us;
We are safe if Thou art nigh.

3. Tho’ the night be dark and dreary,
Darkness cannot hide from Thee;
Thou art He, who, never weary,
Watchest where Thy people be.

4. Should swift death this night o’ertake us,
And command us to the tomb,
May the morn in heav’n awake us,
Clad in bright eternal bloom.