Del alma el sol, mi Salvador

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1 Del alma el sol, mi Salvador,
Jamás hay noche en donde estas;
Que no me impida aquí, Señor,
Terrena nube ver tu faz.

2 Que yo mis ojos al cerrar
En blando sueño arrobador,
¡Cuán dulce! Diga, es descansar
Siempre en tu seno, mi Señor.

3 Conmigo se al amanecer,
No puedo yo sin ti vivir;
Conmigo se al anochecer,
No quiero yo si ti morir.

4 Y aquí la senda al continuar,
Con todos ve, Jesús Señor,
Hasta que al fin, allá en tu hogar,
Nos cubra ya tu eterno amor.
Amén.

Source: Cantos Espirituales: para usarse en todos los servicios de la iglesia de Cristo (3rd rev. ed.) #143

Author: John Keble

Keble, John, M.A., was born at Fairford, in Gloucestershire, on St. Mark's Day, 1792. His father was Vicar of Coln St. Aldwin's, about three miles distant, but lived at Fairford in a house of his own, where he educated entirely his two sons, John and Thomas, up to the time of their entrance at Oxford. In 1806 John Keble won a Scholarship at Corpus Christi College, and in 1810 a Double First Class, a distinction which up to that time had been gained by no one except Sir Robert Peel. In 1811 he was elected a Fellow of Oriel, a very great honour, especially for a boy under 19 years of age; and in 1811 he won the University Prizes both for the English and Latin Essays. It is somewhat remarkable that amid this brilliantly successful career,… Go to person page >

Translator: Vicente Mendoza

Vicente Mendoza Born: De­cem­ber 24, 1875, Guad­a­la­ja­ra, Mex­i­co. Died: 1955, Mex­i­co Ci­ty, Mex­i­co. Mendoza stu­died in­i­tial­ly un­der Don Au­re­lio Or­te­ga. At age of 11 he went to work in a Pro­test­ant print shop in Mex­i­co Ci­ty and helped pro­duce El Evan­gel­is­ta Mex­i­ca­no (The Mex­i­can Evan­gel­ist) for the Meth­od­ist Church of the South; he rose to be­come its di­rect­or for 17 years. Look­ing to im­prove him­self, Men­do­za en­tered a night school for work­ers, but lat­er feel­ing the call to preach the Gos­pel, he en­tered the Pres­by­ter­i­an Sem­in­a­ry in Mex­i­co Ci­ty. When the sem­in­a­ry closed temp­o­rar­i­ly, Men­do­za en­tered the… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Del alma el sol, mi Salvador
English Title: Sun of my soul, Thou Savior dear
Author: John Keble
Translator: Vicente Mendoza
Meter: 8.8.8.8
Language: Spanish
Copyright: Public Domain

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HURSLEY

HURSLEY is a Protestant French Huguenot melody by an anonymous composer.

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