Laß mich dein sein und bleiben
Laß mich dein sein und bleiben. Nikolaus Selnecker* (1530/32- 1592), stanza 1, stanzas 2 and 3, author unknown.
Stanza 1 of this very beautiful ‘Gebetlein’ or ‘little prayer’, is used for the close of a service, and is found in EG in the ‘Eingang und Ausgang’ section (EG 157). It was published in Selnecker’s ‘Passio’, written when he was at Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, entitled Passio. Das Leiden und Sterben unsers Herrn Jesu Christi, aus den Vier Evangelisten (‘the sorrows and death of our Lord Jesus Christ, taken from the four evangelists’, Wolfenbüttel, 1572). Wackernagel, Das Deutsche Kirchenlied IV. 251, states that it was also printed by Selnecker in Der Psalter mit kurtzen Summarien,...
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