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Text:For Me To Live Is Jesus
Author (attributed to):Simon Graf
Translator:Hermann H. M. Brueckner
Tune:CHRISTUS, DER IST MEIN LEBEN
Composer:Melchior Vulpius
Media:MIDI file

15182. For Me To Live Is Jesus

1 For me to live is Jesus,
For me to die is gain;
I yield to Him most gladly
And leave this world of pain.

2 In peace this life departing,
To yonder realms I soar,
That I with Christ, my brother,
May dwell forevermore.

3 My toil and cares are ended,
My troubles all must cease,
For in Thy wounds, O Jesus,
My soul has found its peace.

4 Then let me close my eyelids
And fall asleep in Thee;
Let Thy good will and counsel
Be thus fulfilled in me.

Text Information
First Line: For me to live is Jesus
Title: For Me To Live Is Jesus
German Title: Christus, der ist mine Leben
Author (attributed to): Simon Graf (1603)
Translator: Hermann H. M. Brueckner
Meter: 76.76
Language: English
Source: Tr.: American Lutheran Hymnal by Emmanuel Poppen (Columbus, OH: Lutheran Book Concern, 1930)
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: CHRISTUS, DER IST MEIN LEBEN
Composer: Melchior Vulpius (1609)
Meter: 76.76
Key: E♭ Major
Copyright: Public Domain



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