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Savior, Who Thy Flock Art Feeding
- Words:
- William Augustus Mühlenberg, 1826.
- Music:
- 'Batty' or 'Ringe recht' from Johann Thommen's Musicalischer Christenschatz, Basel, 1745.
- Setting:
- "Kern des Deutschen Kirchengesangs Zum Gebrauch" Fridrich Layriz, 1854.
- Metre:
- 8 7 8 7
- 1Savior, who Thy flock art feedingWith the Shepherd's kindest care,All the feeble gently leading,While the lambs Thy bosom share.
- 2Now, these little ones receiving,Fold them in Thy gracious arm;There, we know, Thy Word believing,Only there secure from harm.
- 3Never, from Thy pasture roving,Let them be the lion's prey;Let Thy tenderness, so loving,Keep them through life's dang'rous way.
- 4Then within Thy fold eternalLet them find a resting place,Feed in pastures ever vernal,Drink the rivers of Thy grace.
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- Written in 1826, the words are in 374 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
- The tune, Batty, is in 57 hymnals. The tune →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project (Brian J. Dumont), which places its own work in the public domain. Further sheet music is from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.