Jesu, Son of Mary (Sabine Baring-Gould)
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- Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2021-02-19). Score information: A4, 1 page, 43 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: The hymn with four-part harmony and underlaid words in the version published in Hymns Ancient & Modern New Standard
- Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2021-02-19). Score information: A4, 1 page, 72 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: The hymn in the version published in Hymns Ancient & Modern New Standard, melody with words.
General Information
Title: Jesu, Son of Mary
Composer: Sabine Baring-Gould
Tune: Eudoxia
- Translation by Edmund Stuart Palmer
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn Meter: 65. 65
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella or keyboard
First published:
2nd published: 1983 in Hymns Ancient and Modern, New Standard, no. 281
Description: Translated from the Swahili
External websites: https://embassysingers.de/scores/hymns.html
Original text and translations
English text
Jesu, Son of Mary,
fount of life alone,
here we hail thee present
on thine altar-throne:
humbly we adore thee,
Lord of endless might,
in the mystic symbols
veiled from earthly sight.
Think, O Lord, in mercy
on the souls of those
who, in faith gone from us,
now in death repose.
Here ’mid stress and conflict
toils can never cease;
there, the warfare ended,
bid them rest in peace.
Often were they wounded
in the deadly strife;
heal them, good Physician,
with the balm of life.
Every taint of evil,
frailty and decay,
good and gracious Saviour,
cleanse and purge away.
Rest eternal grant them,
after weary fight;
shed on them the radiance
of thy heavenly light.
Lead them onward, upward,
to the holy place,
where thy saints made perfect
gaze upon thy face.