O Heilger Geist, kehr bei uns ein
O Heilger Geist, kehr bei uns ein. Michael Schirmer* (1606-1673).
Published by Johann Crüger*, Schirmer’s colleague at the Greyfriars Cloister and Gymnasium at Berlin, in Newes vollkömliches Gesangbuch/ Augspurgischer Confession (Berlin, 1640). It was in the Whitsun-tide section, where it was entitled ‘Ein ander PfingstLiedlein M. Mich. Schirmers’ (‘another short Whitsun-tide hymn by Michael Schirmer’). It is found in EG in seven 7-line stanzas, with line 4 as an effective pause with (in most stanzas) an internal rhyme: ‘Sonne, Wonne’, Höre, lehre’, ‘Schaue, baue’, etc.
Strong rhyming is a feature of this hymn:
O Heilger Geist, kehr bei uns ein und laβ uns deine Wohnung sein, o komm, du...
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