SENDING

Lord, Bid Your Servant Go in Peace 545

Song of Simeon

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1 Lord, bid your ser - vant go in peace; your
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This unrhymed 20th-century paraphrase by a Scottish Jesuit gives fresh immediacy to the Song of Simeon
(Luke 2:29–32) and recaptures something of that aged priest’s sense of wonder in beholding the infant
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TEXT: James Quinn, SJ, 1969 LAND OF REST
MUSIC: American folk melody; arr. Annabel Morris Buchanan, 1938 CM
Text © 1969 James Quinn, SJ (alternate harmonization, 691)
Music Arr. © 1938, ren. H. W. Gray Company (admin. Alfred Music Publishing)

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