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Translations. - Simeon The Patriarch's Song Of Praise. (Luther's Song-Book.)

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In peace and joy I now depart,         For God hath willed it.         Comforted is my mind and heart,         For he hath stilled it;         As my God did promise me,         Death is grown only slumber.         That shows that Christ is God's own Son,         And our saviour so,         Whom thou, O Lord, to me hast shown,         Making me know         Him the Life eternal,         And health in pain and dying.         In the fore-front thou hast him placed,         In him delighted;         The whole world to his kingdom blest         Hast invited         Through thy precious wholesome word         In every place resounding.         He is the health and happy light         Of the heathen,         To ope their eyes, and give them sight         Thee to see then.         He to thy people, Isr'el,         Is glory, honour, pleasure.

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