4429 | The Cyber Hymnal#4430 | 4431 |
Text: | My Lord, How Full of Sweet Content |
Author: | Madame de la Mothe Guyon |
Translator (from French): | William Cowper |
Tune: | HAMBURG |
Composer: | Lowell Mason |
Media: | MIDI file |
1. My Lord, how full of sweet content;
I pass my years of banishment!
Where’er I dwell, I dwell with Thee,
In Heaven, in earth, or on the sea.
2. To me remains nor place nor time;
My country is in every clime;
I can be calm and free from care
On any shore, since God is there.
3. While place we seek, or place we shun
The soul finds happiness in none;
But with a God to guide our way,
’Tis equal joy, to go or stay.
4. Could I be cast where Thou are not,
That were indeed a dreadful lot:
But regions none remote I call,
Secure of finding God in all.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | My Lord, how full of sweet content |
Title: | My Lord, How Full of Sweet Content |
Author: | Madame de la Mothe Guyon (1722) |
Translator (from French): | William Cowper (1801) |
Meter: | LM |
Language: | English |
Source: | Poésies et Cantiques Spirituels, 1722; translation in his posthumous Poems, 1801.\ |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Notes: | The lyrics may be partly autobiographical, reflecting Guyon's periods of imprisonment and banishment. |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | HAMBURG |
Composer: | Lowell Mason (1824) |
Meter: | LM |
Incipit: | 11232 34323 33343 |
Key: | F Major |
Source: | First appeared in The Boston Handel and Haydn Society Collection of Church Music, third edition, 1825 |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
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MIDI file: | MIDI File (Cyber Hymnal) |
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XML score: | XML score |