1 Fader, ogsaa denne Gang
Frelstes jeg for Børn og Mage;
Fro jeg gjør min Kirkegang,
Lad din Naade mig ledsage;
Rens mit Hjerte, styrk mig, Gud,
Gjør mig glad i dine Bud!
2 Jesu, paa dit Livsens Ord
Vil jeg som Maria høre;
Styrk mig, at jeg stedse tror,
Lad ei Verden mig forføre;
Lad mig v"lge for minSjæl,
Hvad der er den bedste Del!
3 Kom, o Jesu, i dit Navn
Moderhjertet vil sig gl"de;
Se til Barnet i min Favn,
Du, som elsket har de Spæde;
Glædens Fylde er i dig,
Væ en daglig Gjest hos mig!
4 Kom, med Kjærlighed og Tro
Vil jeg dig, o Herre, tjene;
Du velsigne Børn og Bo,
Mand og Viv du Kraft forlene!
Hellige vort Hus i Fred
Til et Bønnens Tempelsted!
Source: Psalmebog, udgiven af Synoden for den norske evangelisk-lutherske Kirke i Amerika (2nd ed.) #441
Franzén, Franz Michael, was born at Uleabôrg, Finland, in 1772, and educated at the University of Abo, where he became Librarian and Professor of Literary History. He was subsequently Minister at Kumla, Orebro, Sweden, and then of Santa Clara, in Stockholm. He was consecrated Bishop of Hernosand, in 1841, and died there in 1847. (See Supplement to Longfellow's Poets and Poetry of Europe.) Of his pieces one is in English common use. It begins "Jesum haf i ständigt minne," translated by Mrs. Charles in her Christian Life in Song, 1858, p. 250, as "Jesus in Thy memory keep" (Looking unto Jesus). Usually it begins with stanza ii., "Look to Jesus, till, reviving."
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
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