Words: , 12th Century (Jesu dulcis memoria); translated from Latin to German in Arndt’s True Christianity; translated from German to English by (1712) and John Christian Jacobi (Psalmodia Germanica, 1720). The version below derives from A Collection of Psalms and Hymns Extracted from Various Authors, by , 1760. Music: Rockingham (Mason), , 1832. |
Of Him Who did salvation bring,
I could forever think and sing:
Arise, ye needy, He’ll relieve;
Arise, ye guilty, He’ll forgive.
Ask but His grace, and lo, ’tis given!
Ask, and He turns your hell to heaven;
Though sin and sorrow wound my soul,
Jesus, Thy balm will make it whole.
To shame our sins He blushed in blood;
He closed His eyes to show us God:
Let all the world fall down and know
That none but God such love can show.
Insatiate to this Spring I fly;
I drink, and yet am ever dry;
Ah! who against Thy charm is proof!
Ah! who that loves, can love enough?