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Purer yet and purer I would be in mind
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Appears in 244 hymnals Matching Instances: 244 Topics: The Christian Life Aspiration and Prayer Used With Tune: LYNDHURST
Purer yet and purer I would be in mind
[MARY MAGDALENE]
Meter: 6.5.6.5 D Appears in 89 hymnals Matching Instances: 23 Composer and/or Arranger: John B. Dykes Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 11234 33321 71123 Used With Text: Purer yet and purer
[MARY MAGDALENE]
Purer Yet and Purer
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832; Anne R. Bennett Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #5703 Meter: 6.5.6.5 D Lyrics: 1. Purer yet and purer,
I would be in mind,
Dearer yet and dearer,
every duty find;
Hoping still, and trusting
God without a fear,
Patiently believing
He will make all clear.
2. Calmer yet and calmer,
in the hour of pain,
Surer yet and surer,
peace at last to gain;
Suffering still and doing,
to His will resigned,
And to joy subduing
heart and will and mind.
3. Higher yet and higher,
out of clouds and sight,
Nearer yet and nearer,
rising to the Light;
Light serene and holy,
where my soul may rest,
Purified and holy,
sanctified and blessed.
4. Swifter yet and swifter,
ever onward run,
Firmer yet and firmer,
step as I go on;
Oft these earnest longings
swell within my breast,
Yet their inner meaning
ne’er can be expressed. Languages: English Tune Title: GOETHE
Purer Yet and Purer
Purer yet and purer i would be in mind
Author: J. W. von Goethe Hymnal: The Sabbath Hymn Book. Baptist ed. #d880 (1858)
Purer yet and purer i would be in mind
J. W. von Goethe
1749 - 1832 Person Name: Goethe Author of "Purer Yet and Purer" in Christ in Song Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, son of Johann Caspar Goethe, a lawyer at Frankfurt-am-Main; was born at Frankfurt Aug. 28,1749, and died at Weimar, March 22, 1832. The greatest German poet of his day, and one of the most famous literary men of his own or any age, his sympathies were Classical rather than distinctively Christian; and as he himself said (Conversations with Eckerman, January 4, 1827), he wrote no poems suited for use in public worship.
A few pieces, principally from his well-known dramatic poem of Faust (pt. i. 1808; pt. ii. pub. posthumously, 1832), are found under his name in one or two Unitarian hymn-books. Good translations of both parts of Faust have been published by Dr. John Anster, Bayard Taylor, Sir Theodore Martin, and others; while a very large number of other persons have published translations of the first part. No attempt has accordingly been made to notice any translations except those in the hymn-books.
i. From Faust, pt. i., 1808.
i. Christ ist erttanden! Freude dem Sterbliche. Easter. The chorus of angels on Easter Day. Translated as “Christ has arisen! Joy to our buried Head," by Dr. F. H. Hedge, in his Supplement to Hymns for the Church of Christ, Boston, U.S., 1853, No. 836. A free version is also noted under A. C. Cox, No. 4.
ii. Die Sonne tönt nach alter Weise. Praise. The Song of the three Archangels in the Prologue in Heaven. Translated as "The sun is still for ever sounding," by Dr. F. H. Hedge, as above, 1853, No. 190.
iii. Verlassen nab ich Feld und Auen. [Evening]. Faust's Soliloquy on entering his study with the dog, Translated as "O'er silent field and lonely lawn," as No. 21 in W. J. Fox's Hymns & Anthems, 1841, repeated in English and American Unitarian collections.
ii. Miscellaneous.
iv. Des Maurers Wandeln. Written for the Freemasons' Lodge at Weimar, of which he became a member in 1780, and included in his Werke, 1828, vol. iii. p. 61, entitled "Symbolum." Translated as "The Mason’s ways are A type of Existence," by T. Carlyle, in his Past and Present, 1843, p. 318. Included,beginning "The future hides in it" (st. ii.), as No. 854 in Dr. Hedge's Collection, 1853, as above.
Two pieces are also found in collections under his name, viz.:—
1. Without haste! without rest, in Hymns of the Ages, Boston, U.S., 3rd Ser., 1865, p. 76, and repeated as "Without haste and without rest," in Stopford Brooke's Christian Hymns, 1881, &c. It is suggested by " Wie das Gestern Ohne Hast, Aber Ohne Hast, Drehe sich jeder, Urn die eigne Last," in Goethe's Zahme Xenien, 2nd Ser., 1823 (Werke, 1828, iii. p. 245).
2. Rest is not quitting The busy career. [Rest]| This is part of a piece beginning "Sweet is the pleasure Itself cannot spoil." No. 853 in Dr. Hedge's Collection, 1853, as above, marked as by " J. S. Dwight." There does not appear to be any equivalent poem in Goethe's Werke. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, (1907)
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Goethe, J. W. von, p. 441, i. The Exeter Unitarian Hymns, Psalms and Anthems, of 1863 and 1884, contains the several additional hymns from Goethe, the translations in each case being by the Rev. T. W. Chignell. Some of the versions are very free, and the distinctively Christian character of the translations is only very faintly present in the originals. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
J. W. von Goethe
Anonymous
Author of "Purer yet and purer" in The Hymnal In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.
Anonymous
S. J. Vail
1818 - 1884 Composer of "LYNDHURST" in Great Songs of the Church In his youth Silas Jones Vail learned the hatter's trade at Danbury, Ct. While still a young man, he went to New York and took employment in the fashionable hat store of William H. Beebe. Later he established himself in business as a hatter at 118 Fulton Street, where he was for many years successful. But the conditions of trade changed, and he could not change with them. After his failure in 1869 or 1870 he devoted his entire time and attention to music. He was the writer of much popular music for use in churches and Sunday schools. Pieces of music entitled "Scatter Seeds of Kindness," "Gates Ajar," "Close to Thee," "We Shall Sleep, but not Forever," and "Nothing but Leaves" were known to all church attendants twenty years ago. Fanny Crosby, the blind authoress, wrote expressly for him many of the verses he set to music.
--Vail, Henry H. (Henry Hobart). Genealogy of some of the Vail family descended from Jeremiah Vail at Salem, Mass., 1639, p. 234.
S. J. Vail
