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Bach’s Chorals. Part III: The Hymns and Hymn Melodies of the Organ Works, by Charles Sanford Terry (Cambridge University Press, 1915-1921). 3 vols. Vol. 3.

Author: Johann Sebastian Bach
Author: Charles Sanford Terry

Part of: Bach’s Chorals, 3 vols.

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Das Jesulein soll doch mein Trost.

Melody: “Das Jesulein soll doch mein Trost”

Bartholomäus Helder 1646

- i.
  In Jesus is my only joy,
- My soul He doth deliver;
- He loveth me without alloy,
- From Him nought me shall sever.
- With deepest love
- I gaze above
- And yield myself unto Him.
- In joy or woe
- His path I go,
- In living or in dying.
- ii.
  With Thee, sweet Jesus, at my side
- Nought can on earth distress me;
- E’en though I wade through troubles’ tide,
- Thy love will hold and bless me.
- The Devil’s wiles,
- Earth’s flattering smiles,
- Shall not prevail against me;
- In Jesus I
- My bourne descry:
- On Him I soon shall rest me.
- iii.
  The day will dawn, O Jesus mine,
- When my dread God will face me,
- When freed I’ll be from foes malign,
- And Thou wilt stoop to embrace me.
- Then I shall be
- Ever with Thee,
- And with Thee throned in glory,
- O Saviour dear,
- Who far and near
- Art hymned in deathless story.
- Bartholomaus Helder (d. 1635) Tr. C. S. T.1

Bartholomäus Helder’s New Year hymn, “Das Jesulein soll doch mein Trost,” was published, with the melody (supra), in the Cantionale Sacrum, Das ist, Geistliche Lieder (Gotha, 1646). The author-composer, son of the Superintendent in Gotha, was in 1616 pastor at Remstädt, near Gotha, where he died in 1635. Bach uses the melody only in the Organ movement infra. His text shows the same variations of the original as Witt’s (No. 63).

[34]

N. xviii. 24. The movement is in the form of a Fughetta, and develops to the jubilant climax pictured in the last stanza of the hymn:

O then I’ll be
Ever with Thee,
And with Thee throned in glory.

Bach uses only the first and second lines of the tune.

There are five copies of the movement in the Kirnberger, Voss, Forkel, and other Collections.

[1 ] The original hymn has three stanzas.

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