vesper hymn

He published several books on preaching, some stories and various hymns and translations such as a translation of the Vesper hymns.

The opening bars to the song Sumiregusa is from the first part of John Andrew Stevenson's Vesper Hymn.

NOTRE DAME Through colored glass, on burnished walls, Soft as a psalm, the sunlight falls; And, in the corners, cool and dim, Its glow is like a vesper hymn.

These six names are derived from the first syllable of each half-verse of the first stanza of the 8th-century Vesper hymn Ut queant laxis resonare fibris / Mira gestorum famuli tuorum, etc.