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{ "title": "Softly now the light of day", "author": "", "tune": "Seymour", "number": "347", "lyrics": "Softly now the light of day\nFades upon my sight away;\nFree from care, from labor free,\nLord, I would commune with thee.\n\nThou, whose all-pervading eye\nNaught escapes, without, within,\nPardon each infirmity,\nOpen fault, and secret sin.\n\nSoon for me the light of day\nShall for ever pass away;\nThen, from sin and sorrow free,\nTake me, Lord, to dwell with thee.\n\nThou who, sinless, yet hast known\nAll of man's infirmity;\nThen, from thine eternal throne,\nJesus, look with pitying eye.", "first_line": "Softly now the light of day" }