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Text:My Soul, Awake, and Render
Author:Paul Gerhardt, 1607-1676
Translator:J. C. Jacobi, 1670-1750
Tune:AWAKE
Composer:N. Selnecker
Composer:Johann Crüger

36. My Soul, Awake, and Render

1 My soul, awake, and render
To God, thy great Defender,
Thy prayer and adoration
For His kind preservation.

2 With joy I still discover
Thy light, O Lord, my Savior;
My thanks shall be the spices
Of morning sacrifices.

3 Bless every thought and action;
Afford me Thy direction;
To Thee alone be tending
Beginning, middle, ending.

4 Be Thou my only treasure;
Fulfill in me Thy pleasure;
May I, in every station,
Give Thee due adoration.

Text Information
First Line: My soul, awake, and render
Title: My Soul, Awake, and Render
Translator: J. C. Jacobi, 1670-1750 (1722)
Author: Paul Gerhardt, 1607-1676 (1648)
Meter: 7.7.7.7. Iambic
Language: English
Publication Date: 1969
Topic: Public Worship: Morning
Tune Information
Name: AWAKE
Composer: N. Selnecker (1587)
Composer: Johann Crüger (1649)
Meter: 7.7.7.7. Iambic
Key: A♭ Major


Tune Information:

Rhythm altered, 1914; (10, A)


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