The Cyber Hymnal ‎#855

855. Come, Holy Spirit, God and Lord!

1. Come, Holy Spirit, God and Lord!
Let all your graces be outpoured
On each believer’s mind and heart;
Your fervent love to us impart.

2. Lord, by the brightness of Your light,
You in the faith do men unite
Of every land and every tongue;
This to Your praise, O Lord, be sung.

3. From every error keep us free;
Let none but Christ our Master be,
That we in living faith abide,
In Him with all our might confide.

4. Lord, by Your power prepare each heart
And to the weakness strength impart,
That bravely here we may contend,
Through life and death to You ascend.

Text Information

• First Line: Come, Holy Spirit, God and Lord
• Title: Come, Holy Spirit, God and Lord!
• German Title: Veni Sancte Spiritus; reple tuorum corda fidelium
• Author: Anonymous (after 11th century)
• Translator (from Latin to German): Martin Luther
• Translator (from German): Catherine Winkworth (with others)
• Meter: LM
• Language: English
• Source: Martin Luther added original stanzas in Eyn Enchiridion (Erfurt, Germany: 1524), "Komm heiliger Geist, Herre Gott"; Antiphon by an unknown author; Translation into English Lyra Germanica, first series, 1855
• Copyright: Public Domain

Tune Information

• Name: DAS NEUGEBORNE KINDLEIN
• Composer: Melchior Vulpius (1609)
• Harmonizer: Johann S. Bach (1724)
• Meter: LM
• Incipit: 11154 35432 55676
• Key: d minor
• Source: Ein schön geistlich Gesangbuch (Jena, Germany: 1609)
• Copyright: Public Domain