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by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)

My Redeemer and my Lord
Language: English 
My Redeemer and my Lord,
I beseech thee, I entreat thee ,
Guide me in each act and word,
That hereafter I may meet thee,
Watching, waiting, hoping, yearning,
With my lamp well trimmed and burning !

Interceding
With these bleeding
Wounds upon thy hands and side,
For all who have lived and erred
Thou hast suffered, thou hast died,
Scourged, and mocked, and crucified,
And in the grave hast thou been buried!

If my feeble prayer can reach thee,
O my Saviour, I beseech thee,
Even as thou hast died for me,
More sincerely
Let me follow where thou leadest,
Let me, bleeding as thou bleedest,
Die, if dying I may give
Life to one who asks to live,
And more nearly,
Dying thus, resemble thee! 

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Text Authorship:

  • by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882), no title, appears in The Golden Legend, section 2, first published 1851 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Dudley Buck (1839 - 1909), "My Redeemer and my Lord", published 1900 [voice and piano], later arranged by Charles Gilbert Spross into an anthem for SATB and piano (1928) [
     text verified 1 time
    ]
  • by Albert R. Gallatin , "My Redeemer and my Lord", published 1903. [
     text not verified 
    ]
  • by Edwin Matthew Lott (1836 - ?), "Elsie's prayer", published 187-? [voice and piano] [
     text not verified 
    ]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2008-06-20
Line count: 23
Word count: 126

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