Amor Divino

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Amor, que não me largas nunca!

Author: George Matheson; Translator: Edward Percy Ellis
Tune: ST. MARGARET (Peace)
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1 Amor, que não me largas nunca!
Minha alma achou descanso em Ti.
Desejo dar-Te a minha vida,
A Ti, de Quem a recebi,
E só por Ti viver.

2 Ó Luz, que sempre me iluminas!
Por Ti, meu Deus, eu posso ver
E, já que a luz celeste brilha,
Nenhum farol preciso ter,
Mas, sim, a luz do céu.

3 Ó Gozo, que minha alma inundas!
Que penas Teu poder desfaz!
Pois esta pesarosa vida
De modo algum me satisfaz;
Sem Deus a vida é vã.

4 Ó Cruz, levantas minha fronte;
Alentas tu meu coração.
O sangue por Jesus vertido
Garante a minha salvação
E dá-me paz com Deus.

Source: Hinos e Cânticos: com música #309

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Author: George Matheson

Matheson, George, D.D., was born at Glasgow, March 27, 1842, and although deprived of his eyesight in youth he passed a brilliant course at the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated M.A. in 1862. In 1868 he became the parish minister at Innellan; and subsequently of St. Bernard's, Edinburgh. He was the Baird Lecturer in 1881, and St. Giles Lecturer in 1882. He has published several important prose works. His poetical pieces were collected and published in 1890 as Sacred Songs, Edinburgh: W. Blackwood. In addition to his hymn "O Love that wilt not let me go" (q. v.), four others from his Sacred Songs are in Dr. A. C. Murphey's Book of Common Song, Belfast, 1890. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)… Go to person page >