CATIVA-ME, SENHOR

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Cativa-me, Senhor

Author: George Matheson; Translator: Eduardo Henriques Moreira
Tune: LEOMINSTER (Martin)
Published in 1 hymnal

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1 Cativa-me, Senhor,
Pra livre eu ser, então;
Submisso, faz-me vencedor
Por essa submissão.
Nos braços Teus de amor
Grilhões encontrarei
E, desarmado, ó Salvador,
Vitória gozarei!

2 Minha alma, sem achar
Um alvo, ó Salvador,
Qual folha, andava a esvoaçar
Das brisas ao sabor.
Porém, a sujeição
Ao jugo que Tu tens
Traz ao meu pobre coração
Da liberdade os bens.

3 Não me pertenço já,
Pois me entreguei a Ti;
Se toda honra gozas lá,
Desejo honrar-Te aqui.
No rude batalhar
Serei triunfador
Se, derrotado, me prostrar
Perante o meu Senhor!

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Author: George Matheson

Matheson, George, D.D., was born at Glasgow, March 27, 1842, and although deprived of his eyesight in youth he passed a brilliant course at the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated M.A. in 1862. In 1868 he became the parish minister at Innellan; and subsequently of St. Bernard's, Edinburgh. He was the Baird Lecturer in 1881, and St. Giles Lecturer in 1882. He has published several important prose works. His poetical pieces were collected and published in 1890 as Sacred Songs, Edinburgh: W. Blackwood. In addition to his hymn "O Love that wilt not let me go" (q. v.), four others from his Sacred Songs are in Dr. A. C. Murphey's Book of Common Song, Belfast, 1890. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)… Go to person page >

Translator: Eduardo Henriques Moreira

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First Line:	Cativa-me, Senhor
Title:	CATIVA-ME, SENHOR
Author:	George Matheson
Translator:	Eduardo Henriques Moreira
Language:	Portuguese

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LEOMINSTER (Martin)

George William Martin (b. London, England, 1825; d. London, 1881) composed LEOMINSTER, named for a town in the county of Hereford and Worcester (formerly Herefordshire), England. The tune was first published in The Journal of Part Music (vol. 2, 1862), in which it was titled THE PILGRIM'S SONG. Mart…

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