Jesus kär, var mig när

Author: Carolina Sandell (1888)
Published in 1 hymnal

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1 Jesus kär,
var mig när
och livets väg mitt hjärta lär.
När dagen gryr, när naten skymmer,
Jesus kär,
var mig när.

2 Håll du mig
tätt vid dig
och jämna för min fot din stig.
I glädjen och i sorgen lika,
håll du mig
tätt vid dig.

Source: Den svenska psalmboken med tillägg (tredje utgåvan) #184

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Author: Carolina Sandell

Caroline W. Sandell Berg (b. Froderyd, Sweden, 1832; d. Stockholm, Sweden, 1903), is better known as Lina Sandell, the "Fanny Crosby of Sweden." "Lina" Wilhelmina Sandell Berg was the daughter of a Lutheran pastor to whom she was very close; she wrote hymns partly to cope with the fact that she witnessed his tragic death by drowning. Many of her 650 hymns were used in the revival services of Carl O. Rosenius, and a number of them gained popularity particularly because of the musical settings written by gospel singer Oskar Ahnfelt. Jenny Lind, the famous Swedish soprano, underwrote the cost of publishing a collection of Ahnfelt's music, Andeliga Sänger (1850), which consisted mainly of Berg's hymn texts. Bert Polman Go to person page >

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