Glory to God ‎#545

545. Lord, Bid Your Servant Go in Peace (Song of Simeon)

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Text Information

• First Line: Lord, bid your servant go in peace
• Title: Lord, Bid Your Servant Go in Peace (Song of Simeon)
• Author: James Quinn, SJ (1969)
• Meter: CM
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 2013
• Scripture:
  Luke 2:29-32
• Topic: Sending
• Copyright: © 1969 James Quinn SJ

Tune Information

• Name: LAND OF REST
• Arranger: Annabel Morris Buchanan (1938)
• Meter: CM
• Key: F Major
• Source: American folk melody
• Copyright: Arr. © 1938, ren. H. W. Gray Company (admin. Alfred Music Publishing)
• Notes: Alternate harmonization, 691

Text Information:

This unrhymed 20th-century paraphrase by a Scottish Jesuit gives fresh immediacy to the Song of Simeon (Luke 2:29–32) and recaptures something of that aged priest’s sense of wonder in beholding the infant Christ. The shape-note tune enhances the text’s down-to-earth quality.