Thou shepherd of Israel and mine (Benjamin Milgrove)

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Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2007-08-26).   Score information: A4, 3 pages   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Thou shepherd of Israel and mine
Composer: Benjamin Milgrove
Lyricist: Charles Wesley

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Sacred, Hymn     Meter: 88. 88. D (L.M.D.)

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1781

Description: Milgrove was Precentor of the Countess of Huntingdon's Chapel in Bath. This setting comes from Twelve hymns and a favourite lyric poem written by Doctor Watts; set to music for four, and five voices, with organ accompaniments... Printed for the author, and sold at his house in Bond Street, Bath, 1781.

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Original text and translations

English text

1.
Thou Shepherd of Israel, and mine,
The joy and desire of my heart,
For closer communion I pine,
I long to reside where thou art:
The pasture I languish to find
Where all, who their Shepherd obey,
Are fed, on thy bosom reclined,
And screened from the heat of the day.
 
2.
Ah! show me that happiest place,
The place of thy people's abode,
Where saints in an ecstasy gaze,
And hang on a crucified God;
Thy love for a sinner declare,
Thy passion and death on the tree:
My spirit to Calvary bear,
To suffer and triumph with thee.
 
3.
'Tis there, with the lambs of thy flock,
There only, I covet to rest,
To lie at the foot of the rock,
Or rise to be hid in thy breast;
'Tis there I would always abide,
And never a moment depart,
Concealed in the cleft of thy side,
Eternally held in thy heart.