The King of Love My Shepherd Is

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Composer
Mark Schweizer
Difficulty
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Season
Lent Easter Season General
Voicing(s)
2-part
Instruments
Keyboard [organ/piano]
Psalm
23
Category
Anthems Anthems with/based on Canons
Instrumental Only?
No
Description

Two-part choir (equal voices - in canon) and piano, organ, or harpsichord. A setting of the hymn-tune St. Columba with the accompaniment from JS Bach's Prelude No.1 in C major from The Well-Tempered Clavier. Hymn-text by Henry Baker.

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Lyrics

The King of love my Shepherd is,
Whose goodness faileth never,
I nothing lack if I am His
And He is mine forever.

Where streams of living water flow
My ransomed soul He leadeth,
And where the verdant pastures grow,
With food celestial feedeth.

And so through all the length of days
Thy goodness faileth never;
Good Shepherd, may I sing Thy praise
Within Thy house forever.