Lutheran Hymnody
The Hymns
DEATH AND BURIAL
589
Oh, How Blest Are Ye Whose Toils are Ended
Rev. 14: 13
10. 10. 5. 10.
O wie selig seid ihr doch, ihr Frommen
Simon Dach, 1635
Tr., Henry W. Longfellow, 1845, alt.
O wie selig
J. Georg Stözel’s “Choral-Buch”
Stuttgart, 1744
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men.
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heart
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5
Ah, who would, then, not depart with gladness
To inherit heaven for earthly sadness?
Who here would languish
Longer in bewailing and in anguish?
6
Come, O Christ, and loose the chains that bind us:
Lead us forth and cast this world behind us.
With Thee, the Anointed,
Finds the soul its joy and rest appointed.
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