St Paul's Lyrics

Title: Lord Jesus, think on me
Hymn tune: St Paul's
Composer: John Stainer
Meter: 66. 86 (S.M.)

Number of voices: 4vv  Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn tyne

Language: English
Instruments: Keyboard
Published: Tune: St. Paul’s, John Stain­er, in Hymns An­cient and Mo­dern, 1875; Lyrics: Sy­ne­si­us of Cy­rene, cir­ca 430 (Μνώεο Χριστέ), trans­lat­ed from Greek to Eng­lish by Al­len W. Chat­field, Songs and Hymns of Earliest Greek Christian Poets, 1876.

Description:

External websites:

• Cyber Hymnal™ entry for Hymn tune "St Paul's"

Original text and translations

English text

1.

Lord Jesus, think on me

And purge away my sin;

From earthborn passions set me free

And make me pure within.

2.

Lord Jesus, think on me,

With many a care oppressed;

Let me Thy loving servant be

And taste Thy promised rest.

3.

Lord Jesus, think on me

Amid the battle’s strife;

In all my pain and misery

Be Thou my Health and Life.

4.

Lord Jesus, think on me

Nor let me go astray;

Through darkness and perplexity

Point Thou the heavenly way.

5.

Lord Jesus, think on me

When floods the tempest high;

When on doth rush the enemy,

O Savior, be Thou nigh!

6.

Lord Jesus, think on me

That, when the flood is past,

I may th’eternal brightness see

And share Thy joy at last.

7.

Lord Jesus, think on me

That I may sing above

To Father, Spirit, and to Thee

The strains of praise and love.

Lyrics: Sy­ne­si­us of Cy­rene, cir­ca 430 (Μνώεο Χριστέ), trans­lat­ed from Greek to Eng­lish by Al­len W. Chat­field, Songs and Hymns of Earliest Greek Christian Poets, 1876.