50 Hymns and Tunes #1
Display Title: Come, my soul, thou must be waking! First Line: Come, my soul, thou must be waking! Meter: P. M. Date: 1876
50 Hymns and Tunes #1
1 Come, my soul, thou must be waking;
Now is breaking
Over the earth another day;
Come to him who made this splendor;
See thou render
All thy feeble strength can pay.
2 Gladly hail the sun returning;
Ready burning
Be the incense of thy powers;
For the night is safely ended;
God hath tended
With his care thy helpless hours.
3 Pray that he may prosper ever
Each endeavor,
When thine aim is good and true;
But that he may ever thwart thee,
And convert thee,
When thou evil wouldst pursue.
4 Only God's free gifts abuse not,
Light refuse not,
But this Spirit's voice obey;
Thou with him shalt dwell, beholding
Light enfolding
All things in unclouded day.
Source: Worship in Song: A Friends Hymnal #31
Friedrich Rudolph Ludwig von Canitz, German poet and diplomant, was born at Berlin, November 27, 1654. He studied at the universities of Leyden and of Leipzig. After extensive travels in Europe, he was appointed groom of the bedchamber to the elector Frederick William of Brandenburg. In 1680, he became councilor of legation, then privy councilor, and was finally created a baron of the empire. He died in Berlin on August 11, 1699. His poems, which did not appear until after his death, are for the most part dry and stilted, based upon Latin and Greek models, but they were, nevertheless, a healthy influence and counterbalance to the coarseness of contemporary poetry. The spiritual poems, 24 in number, are his best work. They were first… Go to person page >
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| Title: | Come, My Soul, Thou Must Be Waking |
| German Title: | Seele du musst munter werden |
| Author: | Friedrich von Canitz (1700) |
| Translator: | H. J. B. (1836) |
| Translator: | Thomas Arnold (1836) |
| Meter: | 8.4.7.8.4.7 |
| Language: | English |
| Copyright: | Public Domain |
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