Sweet Saviour, bless us ere we go

Sweet Saviour, bless us ere we go. Frederick William Faber* (1814-1863). First published in Faber’s Jesus and Mary; or, Catholic Hymns for Singing and Reading (1849), and then in his Hymns (1862). It had seven stanzas. A six-stanza hymn was printed in the First Edition of A&M (1861), with an alteration in stanza 5 lines 3-4 from ‘Let not our works with self be soiled,/ Nor in unsimple ways ensnared’ to ‘Ah! never let our works be soiled/ With strife, or by deceit ensnared’. A&M also omitted stanza 7: Sweet Saviour! bless us; night is come; Mary and Philip near us be! Good angels watch about our home, And we are one day nearer Thee. Through life’s long day and death’s dark...