LYRICS
| Meter: | 5 6 8 5 5 8
| | Writer(s): | German Jesuits
| | Transl/Adapt: | Lilian Stevenson & Joseph A. Seiss
| | Dates: | 1677,1873
| | Bible Refs: | Song 6:10
| Australian Hymn Book/With One Voice
| 1977
| 131
| Baptist Hymn Book
| 1962
| 202
| Church Hymnal (Church of Ireland) 2000
| 2000
| 88
| Church Hymnal Revised
| 1920
| 468
| Common Praise (Anglican C. of Canada)
| 1998
| 619
| Complete Mission Praise
| 2000
| 823
| Hymnal - A Worship Book
| 1992
| 117
| Hymns for Today's Church 2
| 1988
| 209
| Praise the Lord
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| 46
| Presbyterian Hymn Book
| 1990
| 306
| Sing Glory
| 1999
| 199
| The Book of Common Praise - Revised
| 1938
| 604
| The Hymn Book of Angl & Unit Ch Canada
| 1971
| 46
| The Hymnal 1916
| 1916
| 356
| The Hymnal 1940
| 1940
| 346
| The Hymnal 1982
| 1982
| 383
| Together in Song: The Australian HB II
| 1999
| 203
| Trinity Hymnal
| 1961
| 129
| United Methodist Hymn Book
| 1989
| 189
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MUSIC
American Catholic Hymnbook
| 155
| No key
| Hymns for Worship and Celebration
| 88
| Eb
| Baptist Hymnal
| 159
| Eb
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Alternate Tunes
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| 1. Fairest Lord Jesus,
Ruler of all nature,
O Thou of God and man the Son,
Thee will I cherish,
Thee will I honor,
Thou, my soul’s glory, joy and crown.
2. Fair are the meadows,
fairer still the woodlands,
Robed in the blooming garb of spring;
Jesus is fairer,
Jesus is purer,
Who makes the woeful heart to sing.
3. Fair are the flowers,
Fairer still the sons of men
In all the freshness of youth arrayed;
Yet in their beauty
Fading and fleeting;
My Jesus, Thine will never fade.
4. Fair is the sunshine,
Fairer still the moonlight,
And all the twinkling starry host;
Jesus shines brighter,
Jesus shines purer
Than all the angels heaven can boast.
5. All fairest beauty,
heavenly and earthly,
Wondrously, Jesus, is found in Thee;
None can be nearer,
fairer or dearer,
Than Thou, my Savior, art to me.
6. Beautiful Savior!
Lord of all the nations!
Son of God and Son of Man!
Glory and honor,
praise, adoration,
Now and forever more be Thine.
7. When I lie dying,
Still on Thee relying,
Suffer me not from Thine arms to fall:
At my last hour
Be Thou my power,
For Thou, Lord Jesus, art my all.
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