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أحب أن أبعد عن متاعب الحياة

أحب أن أبعد عن متاعب الحياة

Transaltor: سليم عبد الأحد; Author: Phoebe H. Brown
Tune: SAWLEY (Walch)
Published in 6 hymnals

Representative Text

1 - أحب أن أبعد عن
متاعب الحياة
وأقضي الساعات في
عبادة الإله

2 - أحب أن أسكب في الـ
ـوحدة أشجاني
ودمع توبتي لدى
غاسل أدراني

3 - أذكر رحمة مضت
وأسأل المزيد
وأطرح الحزن لدى
مخلصي الوحيد

4 - أرى بإيماني سنا
منازل الرب
فأرتجي يوما به
أظفر بالقربِ

5 - وحينما أرحل عن
مواطن الشقاء
أنال في فردوسهِ
سعادة البقاء


Source: ترانيم الإيمان #4

Transaltor: سليم عبد الأحد

سليم عبد الأحد Go to person page >

Author: Phoebe H. Brown

Brown, Phoebe, née Hinsdale. A member of the Congregational body, born at Canaan, Columbia County, New York, May 1, 1783, she was left an orphan when two years old. At nine she fell into the hands of a relative who kept a county gaol. These, says her son, "were years of intense and cruel suffering. The tale of her early life which she has left her children is a narrative of such deprivations, cruel treatment, and toil, as it breaks my heart to read." Escaping from this bondage at 18, she was sought by kind people, and sent for three months to a common school at Claverack, N.Y., where she learned to write, and made profession of faith in Christ. In 1805 she was married to Timothy H. Brown, a painter, and subsequently lived at East Windsor a… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: أحب أن أبعد عن متاعب الحياة
English Title: I Love to Steal Awhile Away
Transaltor: سليم عبد الأحد
Author: Phoebe H. Brown
Language: Arabic
Publication Date: 1913
Copyright: This text is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before 1929.

Tune

SAWLEY (Walch)

This tune was composed by James Walch in 1857 for a children's anniversary, and was published in 1860 with other tunes for private circulation. It was wrongly assigned, in the early editions of [The Free Church Hymnal, 1888] to the Rev. F. Pigou. Scottish church music: its sources and composers, 189…

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NAOMI (Nägeli)

NAOMI was a melody that Lowell Mason (PHH 96) brought to the United States from Europe and arranged as a hymn tune; the arrangement was first published in the periodical Occasional Psalm and Hymn Tunes (1836). Some scholars have attributed the original melody to Johann G. Nageli (PHH 315), but there…

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Timeline

Instances

Instances (1 - 4 of 4)
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ترانيم الإيمان #4

تسابيح الرجاء #280

تسابيح المحبة #427

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نظم المرامير #381

Include 2 pre-1979 instances
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