Santo Consolador

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1 Santo Consolador,
tu aliento pon en mí,
que lo que Tú amas pueda amar,
tu voluntad seguir.

2 Santo Consolador,
puro quisiera ser,
servirte siempre con fervor,
y fiel permanecer.

3 Santo Consolador,
hasta que vuelva a ti,
mantén el fuego de tu amor
ardiendo siempre en mí.

4 Santo Consolador,
tu aliento pon en mí
y gozaré de eternidad
aún viviendo aquí.


Source: El Himnario Presbiteriano #54

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 >

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First Line: Santo Consolador, Tu aliento pon en mí
Title: Santo Consolador
English Title: Breathe on me, breath of God
Author: Edwin Hatch
Meter: 6.6.8.6
Source: Tr. Com. Revisora Cantico Nuevo, 1968
Language: Spanish
Copyright: Usado con permiso

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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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