Text: | O how blest are ye whose toils are ended! |
Author: | Simon Dach |
Translator: | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
Tune: | O WIE SELIG SEID IHR DOCH |
1 O how blest are they whose toils are ended!
Who, through death, have unto God ascended!
Ye have arisen
From the cares which keep us still in prison.
2 Christ has wiped away your tears forever;
Ye have that for which we still endeavor,
By you are chanted
Songs that ne'er to mortal ears were granted.
3 Ah! who would then not depart with gladness,
To inherit heaven for earthly sadness?
Who here would languish
Longer in bewailing and in anguish?
4 Come, 0 Christ, and loose the chains that bind us!
Lead us forth, and cast this world behind us!
With Thee, th'Anointed,
Finds the soul its joy and rest appointed.
Amen.
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First Line: | O how blest are ye whose toils are ended! |
Author: | Simon Dach (1635) |
Translator: | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1846) |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1917 |
Topic: | The Life Everlasting: Death |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | O WIE SELIG SEID IHR DOCH |
Meter: | 10 10, 5 10 |
Key: | E♭ Major |
Source: | Stözel's Choral-Buch, Stuttgart, 1744 |