Wake, O wake! with tidings thrilling
Wake, O wake! With tidings thrilling. Philipp Nicolai* (1556-1608), translated by Francis Crawford Burkitt* (1864-1935).
Nicolai’s great hymn, ‘Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme’*, was written during the terrible plague that afflicted his part of Germany in 1597 and 1598. During this time Nicolai composed Der Frewden-Spiegel dess ewigen Lebens (‘The Mirror of Joy of Eternal Life’, Frankfurt-am-Main, 1599). He described himself day by day writing out his meditations, finding himself ‘thank God! Wonderfully well, comforted in heart, joyful in spirit, and truly content’:
And took this… Frewden-Spiegel to leave behind me (if God should call me from this world) as the token of my peaceful, joyful,...
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