Mit Freuden zart zu dieser Fahrt

Mit Freuden zart zu dieser Fahrt. Georg Vetter* (ca. 1536- 1599). This hymn, ‘with tender joy on this journey’ (the interpretation of the first line is problematic), is found in EG in the Ostern (Easter) section (EG 108). It is a hymn on the resurrection, ‘Von der aufferstehung Christi’. It is found in Wackernagel, Das Deutsche Kirchenlied IV. 459-61, in 13 verses of 11 lines (the internal rhymes in the EG text, lines 1, 5, 6, are separate lines in DDK: the EG text therefore has 7-line stanzas). In EG the hymn has been drastically shortened to three stanzas (Vetter’s verses 1, 2 and 13). Liederkunde zum EG, calling this a ‘Torso’ (volume 10, note to no 108), points out that in the full...