Teach me, my God and King (Anonymous)
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- (Posted 2021-02-09) CPDL #62800:
- Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2021-02-09). Score information: A4, 1 page, 39 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: The hymn with four-part harmony and underlaid words in the version published in Hymns Ancient & Modern New Standard
- (Posted 2021-02-09) CPDL #62799:
- Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2021-02-09). Score information: A4, 1 page, 87 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: The hymn in the version published in Hymns Ancient & Modern New Standard, melody with words.
General Information
Title: Teach me, my God and King
Composer: Anonymous
Tune: Sandys
Lyricist: George Herbert
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn Meter: 66. 86 (S.M.)
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella or keyboard
First published:
2nd published: 1983 in Hymns Ancient and Modern, New Standard, no. 240
Description: Melody from William Sandys' Christmas Carols, 1833
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Original text and translations
English text
Teach me, my God and King,
in all things thee to see;
and what I do in anything
to do it as for thee.
A man that looks on glass,
on it may stay his eye;
or, if he pleaseth, through it pass,
and then the heaven espy.
All may of thee partake;
nothing can be so mean
which, with this tincture, For thy sake,
will not grow bright and clean.
A servant with this clause
makes drudgery divine;
who sweeps a room, as for thy laws,
makes that and the action fine.
This is the famous stone
that turneth all to gold;
for that which God doth touch and own
cannot for less be told.