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Text:Holy Spirit, Source of Gladness
Adapter:Samuel Longfellow
Author:Paul Gerhardt
Translator (from German):John Christian Jacobi
Tune:BEECHER
Composer:John Zundel
Media:MIDI file

2622. Holy Spirit, Source of Gladness

1. Holy Spirit, source of gladness,
Come with all Thy radiance bright;
O’er our weariness and sadness
Breathe Thy life and shed Thy light!
Send us Thine illumination,
Banish all our fears at length;
Rest upon this congregation,
Spirit of unfailing strength.

2. Let that love which knows no measure,
Now in quickening showers descend,
Bringing us the richest treasures
Man can wish or God can send;
Hear our earnest supplication,
Every struggling heart release;
Rest upon this congregation,
Spirit of untroubled peace!

Text Information
First Line: Holy Spirit, source of gladness
Title: Holy Spirit, Source of Gladness
German Title: O du allersüsste Freude
Author: Paul Gerhardt (1648)
Translator (from German): John Christian Jacobi (ca. 1725)
Adapter: Samuel Longfellow
Meter: 87.87 D
Language: English
Source: Praxis Pietatis Melica, by Johann Crüger, 3rd edition, 1648; Adapted in the Unitarian Book of Hymns, 1848
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: BEECHER
Composer: John Zundel (1870)
Meter: 87.87 D
Incipit: 55653 23217 61654
Key: B♭ Major
Copyright: Public Domain



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