Zeuch uns nach dir

Zeuch uns nach dir. Friedrich Funcke* (1642-1699). This hymn, beginning ‘Zeuch uns nach dir,/ so kommen wir’, was published in the Lüneberger Gesangbuch (1686), edited by Funcke. It was translated by Catherine Winkworth* as ‘Draw us to Thee, Lord Jesus’ in The Chorale Book for England (1863). Winkworth attributed the hymn to Ludämilia Elisabeth Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt*, but it had the initials ‘F.F.’ in the 1686 Lüneburg book (see JJ, p. 701, p. 401). A hymn by Arthur Tozer Russell*, ‘Draw us to Thee, in mind and heart’, is based on Funcke’s hymn. In The Lutheran Hymnal (1941) there is a translation of five stanzas by August Crull* beginning ‘Draw us to Thee,/ For then shall we/ Walk in Thy...