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Friday, February 16, 2018

"Jesus, Refuge of the Weary"

My weekly tune from The Lutheran Hymnal this week was "O du Liebe."  I referenced The Lutheran Service Book to find that this tune (with a slightly longer title: "O du Liebe meiner Liebe") is used for "Jesus, Refuge of the Weary," and I also noticed a small musical/textual connection.  In the first verse, there are the lines "Often have Your eyes, offended, / Gazed upon the sinner's fall."  The second of these two lines is sung to this musical phrase:


The "sinner's fall" is sung to a descending phrase, musically representing the "fall."