Bible Songs — Miscellaneous

Come, my Redeemer, come

No. 1221
Tune WHITER THAN THE SNOW.
Music Mrs. Sue M. O. Hoffman.
Key E-flat major
Singing key E♭ major
Time 4/4
3 stanzas

Words

Come, my Redeemer, come,And deign to dwell with me;Come, and thy right assume,And bid thy rivals flee.

Chorus.

Come, my Redeemer, quickly come,And make my heart thy lasting home;Wash me in the blood of the Lamb,And I shall be whiter than snow.Whiter than snow, Whiter than snow,Whiter than the snow, Whiter than the snow,Whiter than the snow, Whiter than the snow, the snow;Wash me in the blood of the Lamb,And I shall be whiter than snow, the snow.

Exert thy mighty power,And banish all my sin;In this auspicious hourBring all thy graces in.

Rule thou in ev'ry thoughtAnd passion of my soul,Till all my powers are broughtBeneath thy full control.

About this hymn

As printed As printed: hymn number «1221» (large, left), title «WHITER THAN THE SNOW.» centred (condensed capitals with larger initials); under it the epigraph in one line, «"Wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.—Ps. 51 : 7."» (no comma after «me»; the closing quotation marks stand after the reference); «MRS. SUE M. O. HOFFMAN.» at the right (capitals and small capitals) and no name at the left — the author of the words is not printed; no meter, no reference line and no running head are printed. The three stanzas are interlinear, «1.»–«3.» before the lines of system 1; the chorus, headed «CHORUS», is printed once (its first line on the second lyric row of system 2, the rest in systems 3–5) and is sung after every stanza. In system 4 two lines are printed: the soprano holds «Whit - - - - er than snow, . . .» twice while the alto sings «Whiter than the snow,» four times and «the snow;» (given below in its place, indented); at the end the alto adds «the snow.» after the soprano's «snow,». «By permission» is printed under the music, above the page number «439». The print sets a thin space before «;» and «:» («me ;», «sin ;», «home ;», «snow ;», «51 : 7»); it is closed up here. Words divided under the notes are joined («Ex - ert», «ban - ish», «pas - sion», «as - sume», «au - spicious», «ri - vals», «gra-ces», «Be-neath», «con-trol», «whit - er» → «Exert», «banish», «passion», «assume», «auspicious», «rivals», «graces», «Beneath», «control», «whiter»; «ev-'ry» → «ev'ry»); each stanza is set in its four verse lines (the print runs the stanza over two staff lines). Stanza 3, verse 4: the print closes up «fullcon-trol.» (see uncertainties.md). Spelling, punctuation and capitals are the print's.