“Sun’s declining ray,” a reference to the old hymn by Charles Coffin, Hymni Sacri, 1736:<\/p>\n
\r\nAs now the sun's declining rays\r\nAt eventide descend,\r\nSo life's brief day is sinking down\r\nTo its appointed end.\r\n\r\nLord, on the cross Thine arms were stretched,\r\nTo draw Thy people nigh;\r\nO grant us then that cross to love,\r\nAnd in those arms to die.\r\n\r\nAll glory to the Father be,\r\nAll glory to the Son,\r\nAll glory, Holy Ghost, to Thee,\r\nWhile endless ages run.\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Sun’s declining ray,” a reference to the old hymn by Charles Coffin, Hymni Sacri, 1736: As now the sun’s declining rays At eventide descend, So life’s brief day is sinking down To its appointed end. Lord, on the cross Thine arms were stretched, To draw Thy people nigh; O grant us then that cross to […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001002,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1732,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-songbook","category-endnotes","category-1732-id","category-14-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001002"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7717,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4186\/revisions\/7717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}