Lyra Davidica/A hymn to Jesus

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Lyra Davidica (1708)
edited by John Baptist Walsh

A hymn to Jesus
by Anonymous, composed by Johann Rudolf Ahle

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A hymn to Jesus.
Salve Cordis gaudium.

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Transcribed lyrics (not listed in original)

Hail my soul's true Comforter
⁠hail my Iesu
hail my heart's Inflamer dear
⁠hail my Iesu
still my life's defender near
⁠hail my Iesu
hail my sweetest Iesu.

2.

A Thousand times I think on thee.
⁠Come sweet Spouse to me.
A Thousand times I wish for thee:
⁠Come sweet Spouse to me.
A Thousand times I cry to thee;
⁠Come sweet Spouse to me.
Come my sweetest Spouse to me.

3.

Heavenly Pastures me afford;
⁠I new Life shall gain:
Drop the Milk of thy puré Word,
⁠My Lips shall then be ^[1] fain.
Immerse me in thy Bowels Lord,
⁠Hope shall spring again:
Life of Love shall bloom amain.

4.

No sweet Taste can Vie with thee,
⁠Sweet delicious Love.
No sweet Smell comes near to thee,
⁠Sweet Perfume of Love.
None for Mildness like to thee
⁠Lov's sweet Lamb and Dove.
Jesu sweetest, sweet of Love.

5.

I am Cold, Inflame thou me
⁠Heavenly Lover.
I am Sick, oh! Comfort me
⁠My Creator.
Ah! I Die, give Life to me,
⁠O my Saviour,
Jesu, O my Saviour.

↑ Joyful. Psal. 71. 21.

[1] Joyful. Psal. 71. 21.

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