Testo di Hushed Was the Evening Hymn

Hushed was the ev’ning hymn, The temple courts were dark; The lamp was burning dim Before the sacred ark; When suddenly a voice divine Rang thro’ the silence of the shrine. The old man meek and mild, The priest of Israel slept, His watch the temple child, The little Levite kept, And what from Eli’s sense was sealed The Lord to Hannah’s son revealed. Oh, give me Samuel’s ear— The open ear, O Lord! Alive and quick to hear Each whisper of Thy word; Like him to answer at Thy call, And to obey Thee first of all.