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Text: | For Me to Live Is Jesus |
Translator (st. 8): | Unknown |
Translator (sts. 1-7): | C. Winkworth, 1827-78 |
Tune: | CHRISTUS, DER IST MEIN LEBEN |
Composer: | M. Vulpius, c. 1560-1615 |
1 For me to live is Jesus,
To die is gain for me;
Then, whensoe'er He pleases,
I meet death willingly.
2 For Christ, my Lord and Brother,
I leave this world so dim
And gladly seek that other,
Where I shall be with Him.
3 My woes are nearly over,
Though long and dark the road;
My sin His merits cover,
And I have peace with God.
4 Lord, when my pow'rs are failing,
My breath comes heavily,
And words are unavailing.
O hear my sighs to Thee.
5 When mind and thought, 0 Savior,
Are flic'ring like a light
That to and fro doth waver
Ere 'tis extinguished quite,
6 In that last hour, O grant me
To slumber soft and still,
No doubts to vex or haunt me,
Safe anchored on Thy will;
7 And so to Thee still cleaving
Through all death's agony,
To fall asleep believing
And wake in heav'n with Thee.
8 Amen! Thou, Christ, my Savior.
Wilt grant this unto me.
Thy Spirit lead me ever
That I fare happily.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | For me to live is Jesus |
Title: | For Me to Live Is Jesus |
German Title: | Christus, der ist mein Leben |
Translator (sts. 1-7): | C. Winkworth, 1827-78 (alt.) |
Translator (st. 8): | Unknown |
Meter: | 76 76 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1996 |
Topic: | Death and Burial; Trinity 16 |
Source: | Ein schön geistlich Gesangbuch, Jena, 1609, sts. 1-7; unknown, st. 8 |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | CHRISTUS, DER IST MEIN LEBEN |
Composer: | M. Vulpius, c. 1560-1615 |
Meter: | 76 76 |
Key: | E♭ Major |