Es geht daher des Tages Schein

Es geht daher des Tages Schein. Michael Weisse* (ca. 1480-1534). This morning hymn was first printed in Ein new Geseng buchlein (Jungbunzlau, 1531). It is the first of three ‘Geseng auf die tagezeiten’ (‘Hymns for times of day’; Wackernagel, Das Deutsche Kirchenlied III. 318). This is the first of three hymns, of which ‘Der Tag bricht an und zeiget sich’* was the second. It had seven 4-line stanzas. It is found in EG in six stanzas (EG 439), with slight alterations, omitting stanza 5: GermanEditor’s free translation O herre got, niym unser war, sey unser wechter immerdar, Unser schützherr und regirer, ja auch könig und heerfürer. O Lord our God, take thou our store Be thou our guardian...

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