Nun ruhen alle Wälder

"Nun ruhen alle Wälder"
Lutheran evening song
Title page of the hymnal Praxis pietatis melica
English"Now all the woods are sleeping"
Textby Paul Gerhardt
LanguageGerman
Melodytune "O Welt, sieh hier dein Leben"
Published1647 (1647) in Praxis pietatis melica

"Nun ruhen alle Wälder" ("Now all the woods are sleeping") is a sacred evening song in nine stanzas by Paul Gerhardt, first published in 1647 in Johann Crüger's hymnal Praxis Pietatis Melica. It is still part of Protestant hymnals and of songbooks, and the eighth stanza became used as an evening prayer for children. Catherine Winkworth created a version in English in 1865.

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