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Text:Now All the Woods Are Sleeping
Author:Paul Gerhardt
Translator (from German):Catherine Winkworth
Tune:INNSBRUCK
Adapter & Harmonizer:Jo­hann S. Bach
Composer:Heinrich Isaac
Media:MIDI file

4616. Now All the Woods Are Sleeping

1. Now all the woods are sleeping,
And night and stillness creeping
O’er city, man, and beast;
But thou, my heart, awake thee,
To prayer awhile betake thee,
And praise thy Maker ere thou rest.

2. My Jesus, stay Thou by me,
And let no foe come nigh me,
Safe sheltered by Thy wing;
But would the foe alarm me,
O let him never harm me,
But still Thine angels round me sing!

3. My loved ones, rest securely,
From every peril surely
Our God will guard your heads;
And happy slumbers send you,
And bid His hosts attend you,
And golden armed watched o’er your beds.

Text Information
First Line: Now all the woods are sleeping
Title: Now All the Woods Are Sleeping
German Title: Nun ruhen alle Wälder
Author: Paul Gerhardt (1648)
Translator (from German): Catherine Winkworth
Meter: 77.67.78
Language: English
Source: Lyra Germanica, second edition, 1856; Praxis Pietatis Melica>, 3rd edition, by Johann Crüger, 1648
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: INNSBRUCK
Composer: Heinrich Isaac (1490)
Adapter & Harmonizer: Jo­hann S. Bach
Meter: 77.67.78
Incipit: 31234 54334 55231
Key: F Major
Source: Pub­lished 1539
Copyright: Public Domain



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