The King of Love My Shepherd Is

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The King of Love My Shepherd Is is an Anglican hymn from 1868. The words come from the English songwriter Henry Baker and are based on Psalm 23 .

The song is sung to two different melodies: Dominus Regit Me by John Bacchus Dykes and the traditional Irish melody of St. Columba .

Henry Baker's last words are said to be from this song:

"Perverse and foolish, often I strayed,
But yet in love He sought me,
And on His Shoulder gently laid,
And home, rejoicing, brought me."

The King of Love My Shepherd is was sung at Princess Diana's funeral service with the melody Dominus Regit Me .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Francis Arthur Jones: Famous hymns and their authors . Hodder and Stoughton, 1903, pp. 178 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ↑ Towner, W. Sibley. "Without Our Aid Did He Us Make: Singing the Meaning of the Psalms". In Patrick D. Miller, Brent A. Strawn, Nancy R. Bowen: A God So Near: Essays on Old Testament Theology in Honor of Patrick D. Miller . Eisenbrauns, 2003, ISBN 978-1-57506-067-5 , pp. 26 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ^ The Harvard University Hymn Book . Harvard University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-674-02696-4 , pp. 195–196 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  4. ^ Robert Morgan: Then Sings My Soul: 150 of the World's Greatest Hymn Stories . Thomas Nelson Inc, 2003, ISBN 978-1-4185-7824-4 , pp. 169 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  5. ↑ Baker, Henry (hymnary.org)
  6. ↑ Playback of the service on YouTube