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靈氣歌

願主靈氣吹我 (Yuànzhǔ língqì chuī wǒ)

Author: Edwin Hatch (1878)
Tune: TRENTHAM
Published in 2 hymnals

Printable scores: PDF, Noteworthy Composer
Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

願主靈氣吹我,
使我得新生命,
使我能愛我主所愛,
行主所要我行.

願主靈氣吹我,
直到我心潔清,
使我志願與主合一,
勤工, 或耐苦辛.

願主靈氣吹我,
使我全人成圣聖,
使我凡軀有主聖火,
射出無限光明.

願主靈氣吹我,
賜我不死之身,
使我能夠與主同享,
完全永恆生命.



Source: The Cyber Hymnal #23364

Author: Edwin Hatch

Hatch, Edwin, D.D., was born at Derby, Sep. 4, 1835, and educated at Pembroke College, Oxford, B.A., in honours, in 1857. After holding important appointments in Canada, he returned to England and became Vice-Principal of St. Mary Hall, Oxford, 1867; and Rector of Purleigh, 1883. (See also Crockford). He died Nov. 10, 1889. His hymn-writing was limited. One, and that a very spirited lyric, is in Allon's Congregational Psalmist Hymnal, 1886 "Breathe on me, Breath of God." (Whitsuntide.) Dr. Hatch's hymns were published in his posthumous Towards Fields of Light, London 1890. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)  Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: 願主靈氣吹我 (Yuànzhǔ língqì chuī wǒ)
Title: 靈氣歌
English Title: Breathe on me, breath of God
Author: Edwin Hatch (1878)
Meter: 6.6.8.6
Language: Chinese
Copyright: Public Domain

Tune

TRENTHAM

Robert Jackson (b, Oldham, Lancashire, England, 1842; d. Oldham, 1914) originally, composed TRENTHAM as a setting for Henry W. Baker's "O Perfect Life of Love" (380). Named for a village in Staffordshire, England, close to the town in which Jackson was born, the tune was published with the Baker tex…

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Media

The Cyber Hymnal #13403
  • PDF (PDF)
  • Noteworthy Composer Score (NWC)
The Cyber Hymnal #23364
  • PDF (PDF)
  • Noteworthy Composer Score (NWC)

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The Cyber Hymnal #13403

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The Cyber Hymnal #23364

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