Teach me, my God and King (Charles Lockhart)
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- (Posted 2023-06-25) CPDL #74325:
- Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2023-06-25). Score information: A4, 1 page, 45 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: The hymn with harmony and underlaid words in the version published in The Hymnal 1982.
- (Posted 2023-06-25) CPDL #74324:
- Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2023-06-25). Score information: A4, 1 page, 76 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: The hymn in the version published in The Hymnal 1982, melody with words.
General Information
Title: Teach me, my God and King
Composer: Charles Lockhart
Hymn tune: Carlisle
Lyricist: George Herbert
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn Meter: 66. 86 (S.M.)
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella or keyboard
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Original text and translations
English text
Teach me, my God and King,
in all things thee to see,
and what I do in anything,
to do it as for thee.
All may of thee partake;
nothing can be so mean,
which with this tincture, ‘for thy sake,’
will not grow bright and clean.
A servant with this clause
makes drudgery divine:
who sweeps a room, as for thy laws,
makes that and th’ action fine.
This is the famous stone
that turneth all to gold;
for that which God doth touch and own
cannot for less be told.