Softly Now the Light of Day

Sheet Music

External Sheet Music Links

• Flash printable/playable/transposable sheet music from lds.org/churchmusic

Tunes

• Seymour, by Carl Maria von Weber (1786 - 1826)
  • Copyright: Public Domain
  • Arrangement by Henry Greatorix (1813 - 1858)
    • Copyright: Public Domain

Lyrics

• Poet: George W. Doane (1799 - 1859)
• Copyright: Public Domain

Lyrics from Hymns of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1985

• Lyrics from LDS.org

Latter-day Saint Trivia

• This is debatedly the shortest song in the 1985 LDS hymnal. It is definitely the one that takes the shortest amount of time to play on the audio CDs for the hymnal.