TRANSLATED BY
FRANCES ELIZABETH COX.
"Awake up, my glory: awake, lute and harp."
_SECOND EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED._
RIVINGTONS,
WATERLOO PLACE, LONDON;
HIGH STREET, OXFORD;
TRINITY STREET, CAMBRIDGE.
1864.
_Preface._
Germany, since the time of the Reformation, has always had its sacred
poets; yet their beautiful hymns were till of late unknown in England,
except to the few who read them in the original.
This small selection, now re-published in a slightly enlarged edition,
was perhaps the first attempt to make them known to English readers. Some
of its former contents are here replaced by hymns of more value.
Most of these were pointed out to the Translator as "national treasures"
by the late Baron Bunsen, on whose authority the names and dates of the
authors are given, and from whose large collection the hymns, with one
exception, are taken. That entitled "Gethsemane," recently translated for
Lyra Mystica, is from a Treves hymn-book. The proximity of the German,
which, as in the first Edition, is printed on corresponding pages, will
betray that in this instance, as also in three or four others, the metre
has been changed. In this hymn especially it was difficult to retain the
short line and double rhyme in English verse, with sufficient reverence
for the solemn theme.
The originals will, it is hoped, recommend this volume to young students
of German, who may wish to become acquainted with some of the hymns of
Gerhard, Angelus, and others, without searching through collections which
mostly comprise several hundreds.
HYMNS,
GERMAN AND ENGLISH.