Sweet Spirit, Comfort Me
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Moderately Easy
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Description
SATB Choir - un (or lightly) accompanied. Litany to the Holy Spirit by Robert Herrick. Use this short motet anytime of year, but it is especially good for services where the Holy Spirit is the focus. Not difficult.
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In the hour of my distress,
When temptations me oppress,
And when I my sins confess,
Sweet Spirit, comfort me!
When I lie within my bed,
Sick in heart and sick in head,
And with doubts discomforted,
Sweet Spirit, comfort me!
When, God knows, I'm toss'd about
Either with despair or doubt;
Yet before the glass be out,
Sweet Spirit, comfort me!
When the Judgment is reveal'd,
And that open'd which was seal'd,
When to Thee I have appeal'd,
Sweet Spirit, comfort me!