Geh aus, mein Herz, und suche Freud
Geh aus, mein Herz, und suche Freud. Paul Gerhardt* (1607-1676).
First published in Johann Crüger* and Christoph Runge*, D.M. Luthers und andere vornehmen geistreichen und gelehrten Männer geistliche Lieder und Psalmen (Berlin, 1653) (the ‘Crüger-Runge Gesangbuch’). It had fifteen 6-line stanzas. As the second line (‘in dieser lieben Sommerzeit’) makes clear, it is a hymn celebrating the joys of spring/ summer and the gifts of God in flowers (daffodils and tulips), birds (larks, pigeons, nightingales), and landscape (mountains, hills, valleys, fields), ending with a prayer to serve God for ever in paradise. All fifteen stanzas are found in EG, in the ‘Natur und Jahreszeiten’ (‘nature and...
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